jigsaw

Selznick deplored Hitchcock’s “goddamn jigsaw cutting,” the dreamlike, jagged images that create his signature subjectivity, but Webb didn’t mind it at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Our local dinosaurs are like missing jigsaw pieces that help establish evolutionary connections, particularly around the Jurassic and Cretaceous period transition, approximately 140 million years ago."

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

This year, its 638 beds became part of a jigsaw puzzle of new beds and vacancies that added up to Skid Row’s increase of 614 sheltered residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Retirement is a jigsaw puzzle that looks different for everyone.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

It was a picture off a jigsaw puzzle, or perhaps a holiday brochure advertising a forgotten England.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

In the most recent example, Time magazine this week launched Time Games, featuring online word puzzles and jigsaws made from its iconic magazine covers.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

A verbal sharpshooter, he was made for the poetic jigsaws of Pinter and Beckett, two playwrights to whom he maintained a lasting loyalty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

Ms Dickinson, who started doing jigsaws with her daughter Holly during lockdown, said Ms Clifton's mention of the competition had prompted them to enter.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2023

“We wanted to create jigsaws that someone would want to gift as a hostess present, or whip out after a dinner party to work on during dessert.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2022

More clutter on the third floor: boxes of jars, metal disks, and rusty jigsaws; buckets of what might be electrical components; engineering manuals in piles around a toilet.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

What’s left of the jigsawed and taped-up pages might not provide the thoroughgoing record of his presidency that the law demands, but they are a wrenching testament to his penchant for wanton destruction.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022

These constant shifts of scene can be whiplash-inducing, and, at times, the chapters can feel jigsawed together — patchworks of examples undergirding premises stretched thin by all they are forced to contain.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2020

Wachtendonk said that folks will usually ask of the flying machines, jigsawed together with found objects, rotisserie motors and leftover rivets, embellished with metal lanterns, tiny wheels and painted wings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2019

Ochoa has just opened his second restaurant, Salazar, a Sonora-style barbecue place jigsawed into the former mechanic’s shop for which it’s named.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2016

She picked it up and turned back the jigsawed lid.

From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner

She spends her days jigsawing state and federal funding sources for new water systems, and answering residents’ frequent calls about when they’ll be connected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Then, staffers from the White House Office of Records Management were generally responsible for jigsawing the documents back together, using clear tape.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022

South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.5% to 3,205.83 after jigsawing earlier in the day.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2021

Though they had some wiggle room, it still took an entire summer of jigsawing to get it to work at Moravian and Swain, for example, school leaders said.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2021

This allowed them to continue jigsawing dislocated fragments to put their own ideas into Nietzsche’s mouth.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2018