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To bear up under the higher stress, the PDK’s clutches, gearsets and bevel gear have all been reinforced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Often, the city’s answer is a temporary bevel and shim fix — either grinding down edges on cracked sidewalks or adding a small amount of asphalt to bridge the gaps.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

According to Adidas, the Weagle design on the front of the sweater features a “combination of sublimation and classic twill embroidery,” producing a bevel effect.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023

Even when I'm cutting a pumpkin, I will cut a little bevel on the bottom, just cut a little edge off, and now it is solid on the board.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2022

The first section of the jointed frame is driven by a shaft and bevel gears, and swings upon it.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

The aim was realism in the inflatables’ corners and bevels but with distortion and accentuation in certain curves.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

Staircases that had simple bevels and architecture give way to columbines, lotuses and other ornate features carved into the walnut and mahogany.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2020

It in fact produces what Chef’sChoice calls a Gothic Arch Edge, which consists of three distinct bevels, the final one at 15 degrees.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018

A whisper of sweetness bevels the crisp edges.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2016

The bevels must meet exactly at the center, or the widest point, and should make an angle of about 50° with each other.

From A Course In Wood Turning by Archie S. Milton

Their beveled corners are polished to a high glossy sheen, which creates slender vertical stripes that contrast sharply with the charcoal shadows from which they emerge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Do you want to know if someone needs a changing table topper with beveled sides, preferably before Friday?

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2025

A St. Patrick’s Day decoration hung on the other side of the beveled glass door as I buzzed the receptionist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

There’s nothing especially technological about the California artist’s pictures, which are painted with oils on canvases whose beveled edges suggest infinity pools.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022

The floors were beveled concrete, the shower stalls wood planks and plastic curtains crawling with black mold.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

He has also acted in theatre and on screen, busked, potted, bevelled glass, made music and made people laugh - he's about to cameo in TV series Black Comedy, which showcases indigenous sketches.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2019

But, amid waves of contact, large languages lose their sharp edges, becoming bevelled as pieces of glass.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

"The cause is Ozymandian The map of Sapokanikan Is sanded and bevelled The land lone and levelled By some unrecorded and powerful hand Which plays along the monument And drums upon a plastic bag"

From The Verge ● Oct. 23, 2015

Staff would deliver trays of prototype phones for him to inspect and pore over, spinning them to check for balance and running his fingers across the bevelled edges and joints.

From Reuters ● Aug. 20, 2013

Then take a set chisel and close down again upon the bevelled edge of the piece the metal that was set up, as shown in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

“I wanted to keep the planters very linear, without any beveling on the edges, and that informed my material choice,” she says.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

Plywood is made from layers of compressed sheets, which the beveling reveals at the sides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2016

We settled on a sculptural stylized version and this sketch shows a study in variations on the amount of beveling and possible finishes.

From Time ● Mar. 4, 2015

This beveling should be done so that only a thin edge is left where the two parts come together, just enough points in contact to make the alignment easy to hold.

From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Harold P. (Harold Phillips) Manly

If the plate is less than one-eighth of an inch thick the beveling is not necessary, as the edges may be melted all the way through without danger of leaving blowholes at any point.

From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Harold P. (Harold Phillips) Manly

A jig, or cradle, is easily made by bevelling the edges of two separate pieces of wood and then glueing and screwing them together as at Fig.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham

Also, the bevelling of any piece of timber or plank to any required angle: as the bearding of dead wood, clamps, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

A slight bevelling at the expense of the posterior margin will produce an anchylosis of the limb in a very slightly flexed position, which is found to aid the patient in walking.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

The alteration made inside a square in hewing timber, as opposed to standing bevelling.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

Very thick books have a rather clumsy appearance with their many superimposed boards; this is improved by bevelling on all four sides the upper thick board.

From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam