chisel
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Failure is fatal only when the chisel is abandoned and despair prevails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
“CMS is continuing to chisel away at higher spending associated with coding intensity,” says Tricia Neuman, executive director for the Program on Medicare Policy at KFF, a health policy nonprofit.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
They stooped to cut the right-size stalks at the base with a sudden jab of an asparagus knife, a tool that resembles a fireplace poker with a forked chisel tip instead of a point.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
"There were chisel marks in the rock to suggest someone had found another bit and then ran off with it," says Dr Clark.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2024
If anyone wanted to remove the posts, they’d need a hammer and chisel.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
JOHANNESBURG—For years, hundreds of illegal miners known locally as zama zamas prospected for gold on this patch of land on the outskirts of the city with hammers and chisels in hand-dug tunnels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
One promising option is tungsten carbide, an Earth-abundant material already widely used in industrial machinery, cutting tools, and chisels.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026
In the process, they uncovered hoe-spades, spears, knives, arrowheads, chisels, axes and swords made of iron.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
He saw others who wanted to take a piece of it, who’d come to the metaphorical mountain with chisels in hand.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
Jon’s work table is an arsenal, there are little saws lying around, little chisels.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
He continues by "mewing," a TikTok trend where people suck in their cheeks and point a finger at their jawline to emphasize their chiseled features.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Through years of extraordinary political upheaval, the sound engineer at No. 10 Downing Street has served as a chiseled omen of great change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
And yet, though he at first worried he wouldn’t look big enough, Gadd refused to portray Ruben with a chiseled physique conceived for mere aesthetics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Larry’s the pragmatic choice, but Luke is the romantic one, down to his handsome, chiseled features right out of a supermarket paperback.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025
Mark was two years older than Luke and barely a year younger than Matthew, the oldest Matthew and Mark were easily recognizable as brothers, with their dark hair and chiseled faces.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
They show chiselled physiques, striking before‑and‑after images and claims that you can look years younger by following a simple routine.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
What counts as good looking is narrowly defined: chiselled facial features and visible muscles are non-negotiables.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
He was the "full package," Mr Tracey added, "including the chiselled good looks".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025
A cat that was chiselled out from between two walls by firefighters appeared more angered than relieved after its rescue.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2024
‘There’s no such thing as “safe” any more,’ she said, her words chiselled into arrows by her anger.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
“Looksmaxxing” has men hammering their jawlines, chiseling their own bone structure like Michelangelo with a front-facing camera.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Zhong likens this to a sculptor chiseling away at marble until the final form emerges.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025
And, after a few years toying around with a spread offense, Harbaugh went back to his roots, chiseling a dominant running attack behind a grisly offensive line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
By reducing the cost of chiseling, Springut reasons, architects can once again embrace the decorative flourishes of carved stone.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023
He stops to brush around a dark spot with his finger, chiseling around its perimeter until a rock comes loose.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
"I had run out of energy and I was deep in my pain cave. No matter how hard I was chiselling at it, it wasn't translating to power."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2023
However, he said a local architect had "spotted its significance and got permission to save the artwork, spending a day chiselling it off the wall".
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022
We entered frosty courts by a secret hatchway and waved wooden racquets in majestic arcs, a ceremony akin to polar explorers chiselling out ice caves.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016
In Defoe’s tale, Robinson Crusoe spends five months making a canoe for himself, felling a cedar-tree, paring away its branches and chiselling out its innards.
From Economist ● May 24, 2012
For instance the chiselling of such men as Riccio and Cellini, has never been equalled since their time, save perhaps by Gouthière.
From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Ernest Govett
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