carved

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With every single game of the 2014-15 season broadcast live, English soccer quickly carved out a small corner of the U.S. sports TV landscape all of its own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Set two years before the original film, “Alien: Earth” mostly unfolds on our home planet, which has been carved into five giant tech companies’ spheres of influence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

On its weekly chart, it has carved out a bullish inverse head and shoulders formation dating back to last March following the end of a 10-week losing streak.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

It will be engraved with my name and the dates of my birth and death, and also with the symbols of six religions, carved in a single line.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

There were richly carved boxes which opened only under a full moon, and teapots that never grew cold, made from fire clay forged in the eastern islands.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell