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KYIV, Ukraine—It was late January, and an elite Ukrainian team grabbed their tools for a special operation critical to their country’s resistance against Russia: an underwater drone, a hammer and a chisel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

“CMS is continuing to chisel away at higher spending associated with coding intensity,” says Tricia Neuman, executive director for the Program on Medicare Policy at KFF, a health policy nonprofit.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Nonato laid his chisel against the mortar and gingerly began to tap the top of the tool with a hammer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

Finally, he was able to chisel out the embedded trunk handle to open it, clambering in and driving his Model Y Long Range S.U.V. five miles to the closet supercharging station.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

Then I'll have 759 little chunks to chisel out.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

One promising option is tungsten carbide, an Earth-abundant material already widely used in industrial machinery, cutting tools, and chisels.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026

But when he has more time, he prefers snorkeling in riverbeds where he chisels into bedrock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

In his workshop, a wooden bench lined with chisels and strings lies beside the skeletal frame of an unfinished santoor.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025

He saw others who wanted to take a piece of it, who’d come to the metaphorical mountain with chisels in hand.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024

A yellow-shafted flicker chisels for an insect in a tree, and a kingfisher alights on an aspen bough.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Propellers were being chiseled from oak, which absorbs radar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

He continues by "mewing," a TikTok trend where people suck in their cheeks and point a finger at their jawline to emphasize their chiseled features.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Man, if my chest hair wasn’t going visibly gray and I was instead a lanky, chiseled Zoomer with a hit LP I might feel the same way about top buttons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

Larry’s the pragmatic choice, but Luke is the romantic one, down to his handsome, chiseled features right out of a supermarket paperback.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025

In fact, it was the saying Swanburne Academy had taken as its motto, chiseled into the stone arch over the entryway to the main building in which classes were held.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

Styles has a lot in common with the King of Rock and Roll: from his chiselled good looks to the particular way he wiggles his hips.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

The rest of the pack includes influencer-turned-pop star Addison Rae, influencer-turned-pop star Alex Warren, frenetic girl group Katseye, chiselled rock star Sombr and LA indie outfit The Marías.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026

India's 'Prince' may have chiselled, film star-like good looks, but he will be prepared to fight if the crown slips.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

"But I think I'd remember if you'd done something odd," reassures Archer, all chiselled good looks and friendly bonhomie.

From BBC ● May 8, 2025

The ruins themselves weren’t that impressive: a few stone walls, a weed-choked central courtyard, a dead-end stairwell chiselled into the rock.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

"Evolution is chiseling a sculpture, not constructing a building," Gokcumen said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Looksmaxxing” has men hammering their jawlines, chiseling their own bone structure like Michelangelo with a front-facing camera.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

By reducing the cost of chiseling, Springut reasons, architects can once again embrace the decorative flourishes of carved stone.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023

Seated at one of the workbenches, Joni Bosh is hard at work chiseling along the curved side ribs of her violin-in-progress.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

Disheartened, I made my way out into the workshop and was greeted by the sounds of a hundred hands busily chiseling wood, chipping stone, and hammering metal.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Somewhere in the city, somebody is chiselling away at a statue of the 74-year-old.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

The team experimented with different carving and chiselling techniques and discovered fire was also an effective way to carve out the inside of the boat.

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

We entered frosty courts by a secret hatchway and waved wooden racquets in majestic arcs, a ceremony akin to polar explorers chiselling out ice caves.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016

In Defoe’s tale, Robinson Crusoe spends five months making a canoe for himself, felling a cedar-tree, paring away its branches and chiselling out its innards.

From Economist ● May 24, 2012

The sums which we waste in chiselling and polishing stones which would have been better left as they came from the quarry would often raise a building a story higher.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin