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  • past tense form of see.
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saw

[saw] / sɔ /


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So when he turned on a TV in Brooklyn and saw grown men bashing into each other over an oblong ball, he had no idea what to make of it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Careful savers saw years of historically low interest rates erode the income they once relied on from CDs and money-market accounts.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

"I jumped from my chair when I saw the processed images," recalls Montargès.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

Wednesday, which was forecast to be the hottest day of the heat wave, saw record-shattering temperatures across the Southland.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

Even though it’s only been a month since I saw him last, he looks different.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Performance and illusion are recurring themes: A woman is sawed in half in a depiction of classic stagecraft; elsewhere a juggler manipulates ovoids that each contain an everyday vignette.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.

From Slate Jun. 1, 2025

Goldie's mate, Regina, had her own adventure when she was snatched the following February by student pranksters at Manchester University who sawed through a padlock to access the cage.

From BBC Mar. 2, 2025

For the majority of Americans, one of those legs has been effectively sawed off without an available pension.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2024

I drew Riptide and sawed off the chain next to me.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

Emergency workers stood on the charred roof, still smelling of burning, sawing off damaged sections and tossing the debris into a pile.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

The high-pitched sound of an angle grinder sawing through glass echoed through the hall.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

This felt manageable until I found myself, a few weeks in, sawing at a kabocha squash with a butter knife.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2025

He said: "The finances aren't good, the margins are wafer thin. It's a lot of sawing for not much sawdust, as my grandfather used to say."

From BBC May 27, 2025

Mariam awoke the next morning to the sound of sawing and hammering.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

It had been in my family for three generations — an upright of quarter sawn oak that probably hadn’t been properly tuned for years.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2025

A giant gorilla statue which was stolen from a Lanarkshire garden centre a year ago was "sawn in half" before being discarded under a hedge, according to its owner.

From BBC Mar. 26, 2024

A statue of British naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 charted Sydney’s coast, was sawn off at the ankles, and a Queen Victoria monument was doused in red paint.

From Seattle Times Jan. 25, 2024

Rift sawn white oak flooring grounds the space.

From Washington Post Jun. 10, 2022

Then he emerged carrying a sawn section of tongue-and-groove planking and laid it down and entered the closet again and emerged with a metal box.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner




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