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[hyoo, yoo] / hju, ju /


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These automated strategies routinely buy and sell large quantities of stocks over the course of the year to hew to an index, and any influx of cash into the account will very quickly be redeployed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 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

They dig deep and meandering tunnels - and hew out rocks to sell to mostly Chinese buyers, who then extract copper.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2025

Mr. O’Halloran tells the class it’s a disgrace that boys like McCourt, Clarke, Kennedy, have to hew wood and draw water.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Though its narrative generally hews to a conventional left-liberal perspective, it is at its best when, like America itself, it allows room for dissent.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

It isn’t yet clear how close that opinion hews to Selig’s own.

From Barron's Nov. 19, 2025

The first act hews to the documentary in a flatly straightforward fashion.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 9, 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

An ox-wagon driver hews out an ant-hill forming an oven, in which he cooks his bread, the clay burning like a slow fire, and with an intense heat.

From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon

Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton are examples of authors who hewed closely to writers who had come before them.

From Salon Aug. 23, 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

She and Jimmy hewed to the path that was so well- worn that the feet of Negro college graduates like them were trained to walk it almost automatically.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

The roughly hewn goober had been strapped to the back of a logging truck, hauled across the country and parked near the White House.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 9, 2025

Its proportions are too chunky, too broad of beam, too crudely hewn.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Bach composed best by hewing to a strict format.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

They point out that the core rate has been more stable than headline PCE inflation, hewing closely to a range of 2.8% to 3% in the past two years.

From MarketWatch Apr. 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

Traditional European breweries — like those run by Belgian monks hewing to centuries-old methods — retain the fruity signature of yeast in its untamed, lupine form, he said.

From New York Times Jun. 20, 2024

The pioneers toiled in the van, hewing their way through woods and thickets; while the army dragged its weary length behind them through the forest, like a serpent creeping through tall grass.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman




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