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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

Still, what is the refined chiselling of later scholars compared with the rough-hewn stones of men like Bopp or Grimm?

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)