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carve

[kahrv] / kɑrv /


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The new prime minister, meanwhile, wants to carve out clear routes into technical jobs that can rival the well-established path of A-levels and a university degree.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

The CPI and PPI might not carve a Fed rate hike in stone, but they could be the biggest building blocks.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

The United States alarmed its tropical island territories earlier this year, detailing plans to carve up parts of the Pacific Ocean for mining exploration.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Tron Baker is another who presumably could carve out a place.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

He will carve the name of his now hopelessly lost beloved into the ice with a stone.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

A real plan carves out a protected reserve for that upfront, so the late-life risk is handled and the earlier spending is guilt-free.

From MarketWatch Jul. 16, 2026

As development elsewhere carves up habitat, Fales said, the public and private lands his cattle graze are increasingly shared by elk, bears, mountain lions and other species.

From Salon Dec. 4, 2025

Rather than walk in the footsteps of its predecessors, Lux carves its own, unique path - harnessing Rosalía's classical training at the prestigious Catalonia College of Music.

From BBC Nov. 6, 2025

Condé Nast, which owns the New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Bon Appétit, is embracing flashy events, paywalls and other revenue sources as it carves out a new model.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 26, 2025

They will remember the way the wind pulls them, tugs them, scolds, and carves them.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Users on social media noticed the shape of the stadium engraved on the medal appeared to be carved in the wrong likeness.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

A Los Angeles jury awarded $28 million to a motorcyclist whose leg was crushed by a city firetruck, the latest eye-popping sum carved out of city coffers for alleged reckless driving by a city employee.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

“A lot of sand has been carved away, uncovering things that haven’t seen the light of day in decades,” Yacenda said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

I met her at Cavalariça, a restaurant in Comporta carved out of a former horse stable.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

It was all there—all carved and nailed, all glued and painted.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Milling requires carving the restoration from a solid block of zirconia.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

While mining has temporarily stopped in Amin's village, not far from his home, in Gulak-Dara valley, dozens of diggers were carving into the mountainside.

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

When Antonelli rejoined, he started carving chunks out of Leclerc's lead until lap 41, when the Mercedes driver reported a problem with his car.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

He apprenticed in Paris with Constantin Brancusi—who had briefly assisted Auguste Rodin—absorbing a sculptural vocabulary grounded in direct carving and essential form.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

We may translate this to mean that he started the process of carving a statue by trying to visualize a figure in the rough, rectilinear block as it came to him from the quarry.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson




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