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KYIV, Ukraine—It was late January, and an elite Ukrainian team grabbed their tools for a special operation critical to their country’s resistance against Russia: an underwater drone, a hammer and a chisel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 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

Finally, he was able to chisel out the embedded trunk handle to open it, clambering in and driving his Model Y Long Range S.U.V. five miles to the closet supercharging station.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

Now he gathered a heap of soft grass and, with stone and stick for hammer and chisel, tamped it into all the crevices to prevent leakage.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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

The marks of chisels and other hand tools are prominent across all their surfaces, which appear sleek from a distance, making for an exciting juxtaposition between material and method.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

At burials excavated at one site, over 85 iron objects - knives, arrowhead, rings, chisels, axes and swords - were found inside and outside burial urns.

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

In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

“Invitation” begins with “Circus,” with Kelly made up as a clown who pines for a beautiful performer, danced by Claire Sombert, who is herself in love with a chiseled aerialist, played by Igor Youskevitch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

She was studying, with deliberate appraisal, John Holbrook’s bent head and the delicate chiseled line of his profile against the firelight.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Styles has a lot in common with the King of Rock and Roll: from his chiselled good looks to the particular way he wiggles his hips.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

He shared a picture that he claimed was of himself showing his chiselled abs on the beach and claimed to be financially secure.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

He had a licence to charm on screen, with his sultry voice and suave, chiselled good looks.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024

Lithe, with abs chiselled from granite and blond in his hair, he looked like WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes.

From BBC ● May 12, 2024

The walls were made of rough-hewn stone blocks chiselled with Greek inscriptions - thousands and thousands of them, like graffiti.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

"Evolution is chiseling a sculpture, not constructing a building," Gokcumen said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Looksmaxxing” has men hammering their jawlines, chiseling their own bone structure like Michelangelo with a front-facing camera.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

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

Disheartened, I made my way out into the workshop and was greeted by the sounds of a hundred hands busily chiseling wood, chipping stone, and hammering metal.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Somewhere in the city, somebody is chiselling away at a statue of the 74-year-old.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

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

The sums which we waste in chiselling and polishing stones which would have been better left as they came from the quarry would often raise a building a story higher.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin