chipping
Example Sentences
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Taking the slower route of chipping away at your debt with your income, rather than your retirement savings, is the wiser option here.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
His pubs have previously missed out on government business rates support, and "the increases were so huge last year that now we're sort of chipping away at some of those increases".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Those gains are chipping away at Iran’s leverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
“If you start chipping away at it and preventing people from doing something as simple as speaking in a public park, in this case about yoga, you create a dangerous precedent.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
I continue to make my arrows, chipping the arrowheads and tying the feathers, until I have enough to go hunting.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
