carve
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Sulloway’s research on birth order and risk-taking reveals that later-borns are more psychologically wired to take strategic risks to carve out their own niche and stand out in the family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
SK Telecom plans to carve data-center and submarine-cable businesses out of subsidiary SK Broadband and form a new company called SK Horizon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Celtic take a huge step towards the Champions League as two stunning Camilo Duran strikes help carve out a commanding first-leg play-off lead against LASK.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The CPI and PPI might not carve a Fed rate hike in stone, but they could be the biggest building blocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Other evidence, however, is necessary, for it is known that Michelangelo did not carve all the marble blocks which were quarried for him and which bore his mark.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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A real plan carves out a protected reserve for that upfront, so the late-life risk is handled and the earlier spending is guilt-free.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
His approach to Greenland isn’t mine but when he questions Danish sovereignty he carves into the real issue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
As development elsewhere carves up habitat, Fales said, the public and private lands his cattle graze are increasingly shared by elk, bears, mountain lions and other species.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
The agreement also carves Disney a strong presence on YouTube TV as well as the main YouTube app, the companies said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
They will remember the way the wind pulls them, tugs them, scolds, and carves them.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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Granted, the bar for Netflix movies has long since descended past Hell’s ninth circle, burrowing so low that it’s carved out a 10th reserved for the streamer’s original titles.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
In Newport Beach, strong waves have carved away so many layers of sand that they exposed long-forgotten remnants of the city’s infrastructure that lay buried under sand and water for many decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Wings carved out of wood using laser-cutting machines were then filled with insulation foam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Dramatic innovation in tunnel boring equipment, significantly increasing the rate at which tunnels can be carved out, does not come along very often.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It seems a miracle that this glorious monument to the pharaoh was carved out of raw granite that was once buried in the ground at Aswan.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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Milling requires carving the restoration from a solid block of zirconia.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
While mining has temporarily stopped in Amin's village, not far from his home, in Gulak-Dara valley, dozens of diggers were carving into the mountainside.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
The idea of carving out talks on the future administration of Hormuz was pressed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Iranian paramilitary group that protects the regime and controls the strait, mediators said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But those close to Fery speak of a man who remains humble in his pursuit of carving his own path in life.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
He felt the grooves and ridges of a carving and knew it was the lotuses on the lid.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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