lapidary

There’s a lapidary quality to Mr. Pence’s manifesto, and it’s worth noting that he invokes Isaiah: “look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Clarifying all of this was the lapidary statement of Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, a former wrestler and mixed martial artist who has been selected as Kristi Noem’s replacement at DHS.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

Nor are they much concerned with irony, lapidary prose, etc.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023

Davis is often called on to go big in her roles, to let the emotion and snot flow, so it’s a pleasure watching her hold back and change it up with lapidary, minimalist precision.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

It would have been too much to hope for names from the lapidary in Paris.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Two layered discs carved out of Dalmatian jasper support a pink-hued thulite bowl; the materials were selected by the brand’s gemologists and cut and polished by lapidaries to bring out their full character.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2024

Samples were sent for appraisal to German lapidaries, who recognized the stones' potential for use in jewelry.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had to call in professional lapidaries to help with the cutting and polishing, but still managed to turn out some 100 pieces in his own workshop.

From Time Magazine Archive

U.S. prisons were to be the ultimate social experiment, where lapidaries of the soul would smooth and polish criminals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the past weeks in Paris, in the hours between other tasks, he has narrowed a list of seven lapidaries to three, then to one: a half-Algerian named Dupont who came of age cutting opal.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr