chisel
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KYIV, Ukraine—It was late January, and an elite Ukrainian team grabbed their tools for a special operation critical to their country’s resistance against Russia: an underwater drone, a hammer and a chisel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
“CMS is continuing to chisel away at higher spending associated with coding intensity,” says Tricia Neuman, executive director for the Program on Medicare Policy at KFF, a health policy nonprofit.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
They stooped to cut the right-size stalks at the base with a sudden jab of an asparagus knife, a tool that resembles a fireplace poker with a forked chisel tip instead of a point.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
"There were chisel marks in the rock to suggest someone had found another bit and then ran off with it," says Dr Clark.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2024
He likes the chestnut beams and chisel marks.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
One promising option is tungsten carbide, an Earth-abundant material already widely used in industrial machinery, cutting tools, and chisels.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026
Every day in prison "chisels away at their mental and physical health," Mr Bennett said, adding: "They are not spies for the British state."
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026
But when he has more time, he prefers snorkeling in riverbeds where he chisels into bedrock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
He saw others who wanted to take a piece of it, who’d come to the metaphorical mountain with chisels in hand.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
Tiny saws, tacks, gouges, carving chisels, fine-gritted sandpapers.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
He continues by "mewing," a TikTok trend where people suck in their cheeks and point a finger at their jawline to emphasize their chiseled features.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Invitation” begins with “Circus,” with Kelly made up as a clown who pines for a beautiful performer, danced by Claire Sombert, who is herself in love with a chiseled aerialist, played by Igor Youskevitch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Larry’s the pragmatic choice, but Luke is the romantic one, down to his handsome, chiseled features right out of a supermarket paperback.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025
Farther down the Strip, I chatted with a convincing Captain America, whose chiseled jawline and sandy blond hair were betrayed only by his height, about 5-foot-10.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
He must have had friends whose names were chiseled into the granite.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
The rest of the pack includes influencer-turned-pop star Addison Rae, influencer-turned-pop star Alex Warren, frenetic girl group Katseye, chiselled rock star Sombr and LA indie outfit The Marías.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
"But I think I'd remember if you'd done something odd," reassures Archer, all chiselled good looks and friendly bonhomie.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
He had a licence to charm on screen, with his sultry voice and suave, chiselled good looks.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
Lithe, with abs chiselled from granite and blond in his hair, he looked like WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes.
From BBC ● May 12, 2024
The many faces of the stone had sharp edges as though they had been newly chiselled.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
"Evolution is chiseling a sculpture, not constructing a building," Gokcumen said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
“Looksmaxxing” has men hammering their jawlines, chiseling their own bone structure like Michelangelo with a front-facing camera.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
By reducing the cost of chiseling, Springut reasons, architects can once again embrace the decorative flourishes of carved stone.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023
She notes that chiseling and sanding away at stone is also a much slower process than working with other media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
In the dark crypts below Winterfell, a stonemason was chiseling out his father's likeness in granite.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Somewhere in the city, somebody is chiselling away at a statue of the 74-year-old.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
However, he said a local architect had "spotted its significance and got permission to save the artwork, spending a day chiselling it off the wall".
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022
We entered frosty courts by a secret hatchway and waved wooden racquets in majestic arcs, a ceremony akin to polar explorers chiselling out ice caves.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016
In chiselling the tip, the surgeon had removed too much of the lower nose, which left me feeling as though part of my face was missing.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2015
Upon the piece to be enamelled the design is first carefully drawn with a fine point, precisely as in silver chiselling, and corrected till quite perfect in all respects.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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