jigsaw
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The jigsaw puzzle you had in your 30s and 40s will influence the one you have in your 60s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Retirement is a jigsaw puzzle that looks different for everyone.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
There’s an area where she can paint, sculpt, do jigsaw puzzles, Lego sets, embroider — all the things that ease her anxiety but also help her work through creative blocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
This latest study, published in the journal European Urology, is another key piece of the jigsaw, which could help lead to a national prostate cancer screening programme in years to come.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
She’s in her work uniform, hanging over her jigsaw puzzle.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
In the most recent example, Time magazine this week launched Time Games, featuring online word puzzles and jigsaws made from its iconic magazine covers.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
Findings suggest it formed from chunks of other rocks cemented together - like broken pieces from multiple jigsaws mashed together - in what is known as breccia.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2024
A verbal sharpshooter, he was made for the poetic jigsaws of Pinter and Beckett, two playwrights to whom he maintained a lasting loyalty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
And the retailer offers a collection of dynamic, artsy jigsaws from Puzzles of Color, a company started by Texas siblings Ericka Chambers and William Jones to promote artists of color.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
More clutter on the third floor: boxes of jars, metal disks, and rusty jigsaws; buckets of what might be electrical components; engineering manuals in piles around a toilet.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
On the album’s cover, his jigsawed visage lies in the grass — either a heartbroken Humpty Dumpty or pop music’s missing piece.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
These constant shifts of scene can be whiplash-inducing, and, at times, the chapters can feel jigsawed together — patchworks of examples undergirding premises stretched thin by all they are forced to contain.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2020
Wachtendonk said that folks will usually ask of the flying machines, jigsawed together with found objects, rotisserie motors and leftover rivets, embellished with metal lanterns, tiny wheels and painted wings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2019
Ochoa has just opened his second restaurant, Salazar, a Sonora-style barbecue place jigsawed into the former mechanic’s shop for which it’s named.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2016
She set it on the table and pried back the jigsawed lid.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
She spends her days jigsawing state and federal funding sources for new water systems, and answering residents’ frequent calls about when they’ll be connected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Then, staffers from the White House Office of Records Management were generally responsible for jigsawing the documents back together, using clear tape.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022
South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.5% to 3,205.83 after jigsawing earlier in the day.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
Though they had some wiggle room, it still took an entire summer of jigsawing to get it to work at Moravian and Swain, for example, school leaders said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2021
This allowed them to continue jigsawing dislocated fragments to put their own ideas into Nietzsche’s mouth.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2018
