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“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

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

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

You can cut holes in a line, then chisel out the remaining chunks between them.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

"Yes, they are strong but every day is a day that chisels away at their mental and physical health."

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026

But when he has more time, he prefers snorkeling in riverbeds where he chisels into bedrock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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

I’m just like, “Wow, you look like a chiseled goddess.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

There was Chad Payne with his hands on his hips and his chiseled California surfer good looks, the hard jaw, the opaque eyes, the blond hair.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

What counts as good looking is narrowly defined: chiselled facial features and visible muscles are non-negotiables.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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

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

From BBC ● May 12, 2024

The many faces of the stone had sharp edges as though they had been newly chiselled.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

"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

By reducing the cost of chiseling, Springut reasons, architects can once again embrace the decorative flourishes of carved stone.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023

Some villagers have set up fortifications made of bamboo around their houses, chiseling its edges in the shape of spears to keep mobs away.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

In the dark crypts below Winterfell, a stonemason was chiseling out his father's likeness in granite.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

He once said of the machines that “each one stamps into paper a permanent trail of imagination through keys, hammers, cloth and dye – a softer version of chiselling words into stone”.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2017

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

At close up, his features blunter, less sensitive in chiselling than appears in his photographs.

From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday