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When Vivienne Dawes first saw the photograph of herself dancing on a crowded dance floor almost 50 years ago, it felt like being transported back in time.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

About 30,000 saw South Korea beat Japan 1-0 to clinch men's football gold, although the occasion was tarnished somewhat when the South Korean flag failed to go up in the victory ceremony.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

It was so hot Nicolas Gonzalez, a fan sitting in the shade of the reserved level, saw a stadium attendant, overcome by heat, stretchered before the game even started.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

When a guest on board "saw a whale blow in the distance", Abbot inititally suspected it was a minke or fin whale, the two most common whales in Welsh waters.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Hooke called the microscopic boxes that he saw in the bark of a cork tree "cells."

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Patients with sickle-cell disease have described their pain as “stabbing, pulverizing,” as if “bones were being sawed by a rusty blade.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024

But the horns were sawed off blunt, and he had only three good legs, so Romero took him home and doctored him.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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

Within hours of the latest missile strike this weekend, dozens of workmen were clearing up the mess around the apartment block and sawing wood to seal windows.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 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

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

He said his lifelong love affair with theatre stemmed in part from seeing his sister being sawn in half as a conjuror's assistant at a local music hall.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024

Rift sawn white oak flooring grounds the space.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022

The tree trunks are laid in the street in front of the homes of those who purchase them, to be sawn down in backyard workshops.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

Under the direction of our guard we carried and stacked sawn boards from the mill to a huge shed where lumber was stored through the winter.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin