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  • present participle of carve.
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carving

[kahr-ving] / ˈkɑr vɪŋ /






NOUN
statuary
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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I never got the point of carving pumpkins.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

Before carving out a career in sports broadcasting and voice acting, Horton was just a teenaged high school basketball reject.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Michael Hill, a professor of chemistry at Occidental College, puts it more bluntly: "LASIK is just a fancy way of doing traditional surgery. It's still carving tissue -- it's just carving with a laser."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

The real solution starts with making sure you’re carving out time in an employee’s daily job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Richard felt transparent; she was looking at him but he felt as if she could see the wood carving that hung on the wall behind him.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

According to the company’s website, the business sells precious and semi-precious crystal pendants, carvings and chains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

There are five infinity fountains, also clad in carvings, punctuating the space while fragrant native plants perfume the warm, dry L.A. air, identified by information cards written in Halsey’s recognizable script.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

In 1886 an American naval ship brought statues, wooden carvings, feather headdresses and stone tools to the Smithsonian Institution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

The oak refectory tables and benches, crafted by Robert "Mouseman" Thompson and featuring his trademark mice carvings, had been donated by former pupils.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025

Like the carvings and stained-glass windows in European cathedrals, the art in San Lorenzo and other Olmec cities consisted mainly of powerful, recurring images—the crucifixions and virgins, so to speak, of ancient Mesoamerica.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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