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Two firms at the top of the prestige pyramid, Cravath and Wachtell, are among the few that still hew to a more traditional model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The deals appear to closely hew to the same lines as the earlier deals with Pfizer and AstraZeneca, which were seen as significant wins for the industry.
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
With changes to tax law, the Dec. 31 deadline has become almost arbitrary, yet people still hew to old habits.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 19, 2025
The intention of the proposed measure is to hew as closely to the county regulations as possible, including provisions that provide flexibility to small landlords, Blumenfield said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025
They charged forward then to hew down their puny attackers, but they found only the fog about them, full of voices.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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In “Samurai,” Murashige hews closer to someone overwhelmed by responsibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Mr. Daugherty’s study hews closely to the details of his subject’s life, while Mr. Streitfeld’s is organized more around McMurtry’s formidable body of work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
It isn’t yet clear how close that opinion hews to Selig’s own.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
A writers’ room rule to which Kripke hews closely is that what’s bad for the world is good for the show.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024
What hews it into a heap, or spins it into a web?
From The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 by John Ruskin
Other results hewed closer to recent polling of the race.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
A less-frequent Gallup survey specifically about whether the stock market will rise in the next six months hewed to the same pattern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Selfies were becoming more prevalent as social media grew, and standards of beauty hewed close to celebrity Kim Kardashian’s looks, especially in regards to eye makeup and products used for face contouring.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026
Yet so far, authorities have mostly hewed to the if-it-ain’t-broke approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
The place was filthy and the old pines hewed down and those left standing were dying, and the pools in the courts were choked with refuse.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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Video released by the US Justice Department shows apparently well-made concrete steps leading into the tunnel, which appears to be hewn from rock and with a concrete floor.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
But when he got it right, his lyrics had an aphoristic directness that made them seem more hewn than written.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Its throwing arm, currently at 12 o’clock, weighs 360 pounds and is not hewn or sanded; knots are visible in the wood.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
So far, however, his AI-related bills have hewn close to national cybersecurity bolstering.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2023
It was then that he suggested visiting the hills at Udayagiri and Khandagiri, where a number of monastic dwellings were hewn out of the ground, facing one another across a defile.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Bach composed best by hewing to a strict format.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Some vessels have exited the strait after making a brief diversion through a channel between two islands off Iran’s coast, Larak and Qeshm, and hewing close to Iran’s coast.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
But being a politician occasionally requires actual leadership, which means working to persuade voters of the merits of a position, rather than reflexively hewing to public opinion at any given moment.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
I’m sure someone’s meemaw is hewing now about how Saban deserves the ax.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
Their fields are much better kept than those of the Irayas, and they employ their spare time in felling trees and hewing them into canoes, which find a ready sale at Ilagan.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
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