chisel
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Failure is fatal only when the chisel is abandoned and despair prevails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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
Carrying sledge hammers, scientists hiked to the impact site in South Africa to chisel off chunks of rock to understand the crash.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024
Their goal is to place the IBM Selectric II beside the feather quill and chisel in the museum of antiquated writing implements.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
Scientists and roughly 500 volunteers have used chisels, solvents and dental picks to dismantle 10 blocks so far, so who knows what else they might discover after Zed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
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
Jon’s work table is an arsenal, there are little saws lying around, little chisels.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
“Invitation” begins with “Circus,” with Kelly made up as a clown who pines for a beautiful performer, danced by Claire Sombert, who is herself in love with a chiseled aerialist, played by Igor Youskevitch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Not Brody, whose chiseled, wiry presence is ever in motion, flailing, ducking, wincing, yearning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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
His brown hair was salted with white now, his face chiseled gaunt by time, yet the years had not touched his pride.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
They show chiselled physiques, striking before‑and‑after images and claims that you can look years younger by following a simple routine.
From BBC ● May 7, 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 Frankenstein patchwork of his face has echoes of Alasdair Gray's chiselled artwork and he uses the same gentle accent and singsong voice as Gray himself.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
The walls were made of rough-hewn stone blocks chiselled with Greek inscriptions - thousands and thousands of them, like graffiti.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
“Looksmaxxing” has men injecting themselves with unregulated peptides and hammering their jawlines, chiseling their own bone structure like Michelangelo with a front-facing camera.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Zhong likens this to a sculptor chiseling away at marble until the final form emerges.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025
And, after a few years toying around with a spread offense, Harbaugh went back to his roots, chiseling a dominant running attack behind a grisly offensive line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
By reducing the cost of chiseling, Springut reasons, architects can once again embrace the decorative flourishes of carved stone.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023
Though scarred and cracked, they were sculpted from years of hammering, chiseling, and fishing, and were twice the size of the foreman's.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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
Typically, I’d work at the face, up against the rock, chiselling the coal out.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2017
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
Spirits were high and the mud was deep, but we who were there had the feeling that history was chiselling that night's date into her book of ages.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons
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