carve
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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
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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
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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
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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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