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jigsaw

[jig-saw] / ˈdʒɪgˌsɔ /


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Anuska Tilden, 67, was working on a jigsaw puzzle one recent morning at the local senior center.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

But make no mistake - there is another part of the economic jigsaw that is happening right in front of the eyes of football fans worldwide.

From BBC Jun. 11, 2026

Dogra explained this decision was made prior to the Panorama broadcast, as she "didn't want to run the risk of stoking speculation that might lead to jigsaw identification of the women" in the film.

From BBC May 20, 2026

An older sister turns to sewing her bin of fabric scraps into a quilt top or putting together a jigsaw puzzle to get her dopamine.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 2026

I think fitting the pieces together would be just like a jigsaw puzzle, except it wouldn’t be cardboard pasted together and hung on a wall.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

In the most recent example, Time magazine this week launched Time Games, featuring online word puzzles and jigsaws made from its iconic magazine covers.

From Barron's May 16, 2026

"However, what we've uncovered in trying to unjumble the jigsaws through our analyses is new insight into the very fine detail of how the rock was altered by water in space," he said.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2024

It’s trying to go through these moral jigsaws to kind of justify certain things to themselves.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2024

And the retailer offers a collection of dynamic, artsy jigsaws from Puzzles of Color, a company started by Texas siblings Ericka Chambers and William Jones to promote artists of color.

From Seattle Times Nov. 15, 2022

More clutter on the third floor: boxes of jars, metal disks, and rusty jigsaws; buckets of what might be electrical components; engineering manuals in piles around a toilet.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

What’s left of the jigsawed and taped-up pages might not provide the thoroughgoing record of his presidency that the law demands, but they are a wrenching testament to his penchant for wanton destruction.

From Washington Post Feb. 9, 2022

On the album’s cover, his jigsawed visage lies in the grass — either a heartbroken Humpty Dumpty or pop music’s missing piece.

From Washington Post Oct. 5, 2021

Wachtendonk said that folks will usually ask of the flying machines, jigsawed together with found objects, rotisserie motors and leftover rivets, embellished with metal lanterns, tiny wheels and painted wings.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2019

Ochoa has just opened his second restaurant, Salazar, a Sonora-style barbecue place jigsawed into the former mechanic’s shop for which it’s named.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2016

She picked it up and turned back the jigsawed lid.

From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)

She spends her days jigsawing state and federal funding sources for new water systems, and answering residents’ frequent calls about when they’ll be connected.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

Then, staffers from the White House Office of Records Management were generally responsible for jigsawing the documents back together, using clear tape.

From Washington Post Feb. 5, 2022

South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.5% to 3,205.83 after jigsawing earlier in the day.

From Seattle Times Aug. 11, 2021

Though they had some wiggle room, it still took an entire summer of jigsawing to get it to work at Moravian and Swain, for example, school leaders said.

From Washington Times Mar. 20, 2021

This allowed them to continue jigsawing dislocated fragments to put their own ideas into Nietzsche’s mouth.

From The Guardian Oct. 6, 2018




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