saw
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But after the scaffolding went up and the pandemic hit, the park saw a slight drop in visitors, said James Mettham, president of Flatiron NoMad Partnership, a business improvement district that operates the park space.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
An AFP journalist at the scene saw numerous emergency vehicles lining a nearby road and a large tent erected as police combed the area.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
“One of the first people I saw was Reggie Jackson,” Beltrán said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Based on reports I saw, many investors received only a small percentage of their requested allocation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
And his door matches what I saw in my Flash.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
In director Guillermo del Toro’s take on the classic fable Frankenstein, Elordi glows an undead white as the monster, his body a patchwork of human parts sawed off of Crimean War corpses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2025
But my green thumb ached as workers sawed down the tree, took away everything — trunk, twigs, leaves, fruit, roots — in biohazard bags and tagged the remaining trees with a bill of clean health.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
For the majority of Americans, one of those legs has been effectively sawed off without an available pension.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024
I sawed him mash some crockery to shards.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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
That’s like sawing the magician in half and never putting them back together again.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
The high-pitched sound of an angle grinder sawing through glass echoed through the hall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
If he wasn’t hitting, sawing, or building something, he wasn’t happy.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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 pointed out the painting had been "roughly sawn to get it into a frame", which the owner said his mother had done to make it fit.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2023
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
The wild bushes that'd muffled the House in the Woods'd been sawn back to size.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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