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chisel

[chiz-uhl] / ˈtʃɪz əl /
NOUN
shaping tool
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Failure is fatal only when the chisel is abandoned and despair prevails.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

“I had to put the table upside down and use a chisel and grinder to remove as much material as I could. It took us three tries to get the table right.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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

Carrying sledge hammers, scientists hiked to the impact site in South Africa to chisel off chunks of rock to understand the crash.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2024

Then I'll have 759 little chunks to chisel out.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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