sculpture
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"Evolution is chiseling a sculpture, not constructing a building," Gokcumen said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
The rep confirmed that — after its stop in Minneapolis — Secret Handshake plans to bring the sculpture to other cities soon, adding that L.A. “would be amazing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Much like paper must be folded into the correct shape to create an origami sculpture, proteins inside cells must form precise three-dimensional structures before they can function properly.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Its dominant object, a bronze sculpture of the god Veiovis, dates to the first century A.D., after Etruscans became Roman citizens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
There was a life-or-death attempt being made near my table by a couple of Neanderthals looking to collect money for a beer blast in the sculpture studio.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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A veritable bestiary of nearly 100 sculptures by dozens of artists offers the opportunity to bask in the diverse glory of the animal—and creative—kingdoms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Bayouth finds older women respond frequently to her female-figured sculptures, while a younger crowd is drawn to her catlike creatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
She jokes that it looks like one of her clothing sculptures has “exploded across a room.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Each smaller than a grain of rice, the sculptures pays tribute to Nobel Prize-winning physicist CV Raman and aerospace engineer and former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam, besides Sarabhai.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
There are paintings and framed photographs all over the walls and glass boxes full of pottery and sculptures spread out all over the floor space.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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His charming, whimsical collection featured ruffled tutus, sculptured soft knits, peplum jackets, skirts with bustles and plenty of shearling fabric.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
Natalie Tanner was one of the first people to move into the development, and said she was promised sculptured gardens, which are yet to materialise.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2023
In the end, just the building’s sculptured facade, its public face, bulges outward above a glassed-in lobby.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
On the other side of the fireplace sits the reconfigured lounge, which includes a sofa and an accent wall rendered in abstract, sculptured wood.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022
I looked down at them with a sense of detachment, as though they were hands somebody had sculptured and put on exhibition somewhere.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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A busboy is embraced by the beatnik art community when he develops an impressive but morbid method of sculpturing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2019
She covered them with fiberglass and then slathered on sculpturing epoxy, which allowed her to create ridges in the bark and lend texture to the vines.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2013
The Weinstein Company is set to release “Butter,” in which Jennifer Garner plays an ambitious conservative who gets caught up in the world of competitive butter sculpturing, on Oct.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2012
Norma Lyon, a self-described dairy farmer’s wife and mother of nine who achieved fame well beyond the Midwest as the “butter-cow lady” of the Iowa State Fair, sculpturing tons of U.S.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2011
Miss Burton sent me a wonderful outfit and I took up my work of sculpturing in earnest.
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
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