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She also had silver earplugs threaded through with silver hoops, an awl covered in silver—and a companion: a middle-age man laid to rest in the same jar with a fraction of her wealth.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023

"Wagner is not a piece of slippery soap which the bureaucrats have got used to shoving all over the place; Wagner is an awl, a stiletto that you cannot hide," Prigozhin said.

From Reuters ● May 28, 2023

With a screwdriver or an awl, poke into the wood; if it goes in more than ⅛ inch, rot has probably begun.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022

And maybe — maybe — she doesn’t get the awl.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022

With an incising awl, he inscribed the leather-hard clay—a simple chrysanthemum design, far cruder than much of the elaborate incision work for which the potters of Ch’ulp’o were known.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

Some of the points were shaped into scrapers and awls; others bore a mark where they may have been attached to a shaft and used as spears.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2018

The site became a tourist attraction; thousands of state schoolchildren were bused in on field trips, as workers on the flood plain unearthed delicate ancient tools such as needles and awls.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2017

The Monongahela culture had rich bone tools, such as awls or fish hooks,” Nass said.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2017

They scrape old layers of varnish and wood with awls, planes and other tools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2015

For example, the Tasmanian archaeological record documents the disappearance of fishing, and of awls, needles, and other bone tools, around 1500 B.C.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond