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saw

[saw] / sɔ /


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“I’m not a big fan of eating too much on game day so when I saw that melted cheese and a whole lot of carbs, I was ready to chow down,” he said this week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

He told jurors he ran after the boy for about 25 seconds and continued to shout "stop" and saw that a black glove had been dropped.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

In the city of Mardan, an AFP journalist saw a truck that had acted as a rallying point during the long march protests stripped of its images of Khan.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The company saw deliveries drop across all of its regions except Central and Eastern Europe, with Western Europe deliveries falling 2.8% and North America deliveries dropping 5.8%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

I found him at a treehouse, weirdly polished and fancy, like the treehouses you saw on TV shows but never did in real life.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

But it also means that the horns grow back and need to be sawed off repeatedly.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2025

The crews working on electric vehicles disconnected the voltage cables to air bags and seat belts, sawed off the tops of the cars, and flipped the vehicles over to access the battery packs underneath.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

I say, “You think I sawed that rung. You think I did the thing that killed Benny Kilmartin.”

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

The competition, which Hayward has been hosting since 1960, brings people from across America and around the world together to showcase their skills in everything from logrolling, chopping and sawing to speed climbing.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

I saw one guy in a pickup had stopped and was sawing off the head of a dead stag — presumably for the antlers, but maybe he was just hungry.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2024

We heard a little sawing, singing sound as a file began to slice through screen wire.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

While it is tougher to work with than natural timber, it can still be sawn in a traditional manner with carbide or diamond-tipped blades.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025

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 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

The shelves on which they stood smelled of freshly sawn wood.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke




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