hewn

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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

This same water, reprocessed as waste, is dumped into hewn ice caverns.

From Salon • May 29, 2023

A notched and broken sword lay by him, as if he had hewn at the rock in his last despair.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien