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sculpt

[skuhlpt] / skʌlpt /










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The doll featured a new Barbie face sculpt with a closed mouth instead of a big toothy smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

The Murdochs declined to participate, but decades’ worth of archival footage gives Garbus plenty to sculpt.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

The manosphere’s sobriety is robed in strength and self-actualization, no different than the sleep routine, supplements, and squats that will sculpt the best version of you.

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2026

The day after she and her husband, Jack, sculpt the figure of a child out of snow, an ethereal waif emerges from the wilderness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

We blow on our fingers to warm them up and sculpt or draw or paint or sketch, or, in my case, carve.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

That wrist is how Alcaraz sculpts that spectacular drop shot that makes opponents quiver at the knees and would make Harry Hopman cry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Craning her neck into elegant lines, she sculpts herself into the rendering she wants.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

These features are constantly being reshaped as energetic starlight pushes and sculpts the surrounding material.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025

The stars spit up protons and neutrons, shaping surrounding dust and other material, not unlike how wind on Earth sculpts our clouds.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2024

“But she’s not here very often. She sculpts and works with cut tile and glass. She’s here for the equipment, not the sygaldry.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

A library of radically changed visages, sliced and sculpted to fit the funhouse-mirror beauty standards set by a handful of influential men.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Whether there is a physical change - or any need for one - is debatable, but fans of the massages claim they help "flatten" and "debloat" and give a "snatched waist" and "sculpted abs".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The space features an “L.A.” letter installation and sculpted arches designed to create an immersive shopping experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Local artists, with easy access to Carrara marble quarried just down the coast, created thousands of sculpted scenes that by turns commemorate, re-create or just refer to the dead in towering dioramas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

They opened into a long, broad hall; windows along one wall overlooked a garden sculpted into a perfect wilderness.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

GS: What’s your relationship with your other creative outlets, like painting and sculpting?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Yet where that film’s sinuous sculpting of time is marvelously sly and organic, “Blue Heron” always feels a little too carefully mapped out to achieve a similarly breathtaking effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Promoted as sculpting devices, they've built a reputation for lifting and contouring but Aiza says they "do not permanently tighten skin, change skin structure, or remove fat".

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

"The hardest thing was sculpting his hair. Holy shmoly! Oi yoi yoi!" he exclaims.

From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026

She did some sculpting for him, and in exchange he occasionally tried to teach her.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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