saw
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As internet cafes proliferated, Romania also saw its rates of cybercrime skyrocket to one of the highest in the world, according to the State Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
An uncharacteristic performance from Arsenal saw them ship three goals at Brighton - but boss Mikel Arteta believes their first Premier League defeat this season could prove a "big lesson".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
One of Lynn’s former colleagues told him they saw a tail rotor on the ground, and Lynn quickly learned it was Moreno and Marciniw who were onboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
In the late 1990s, Lumen saw a need for networking given the growth of the telecom industry as the internet took off.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
She saw a vision bathed in red of her husband flirting with the housekeeper in the alley of the hotel they were going to on vacation.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
Over months, he’d sawed wooden two-by-fours to use as a brace between the front door and an interior wall to make it harder to breach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2025
For the majority of Americans, one of those legs has been effectively sawed off without an available pension.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024
In the background, Papi sawed and hammered in a rhythm much more musical than what I conjured from the piano.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
She has now been competing in logrolling for 28 years and began sawing and chopping more recently.
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
“They’re under such a tight schedule here that we said, ‘Can you stop the sawing for eight minutes?’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
“It’s all right,” Rose says quietly, still sawing her food into ever-tinier pieces.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
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
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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