jigsaw
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"These teddies don't have the CE safety mark and they're also very dirty," she says, before showing me a toddler's wooden jigsaw.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Selznick deplored Hitchcock’s “goddamn jigsaw cutting,” the dreamlike, jagged images that create his signature subjectivity, but Webb didn’t mind it at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Our local dinosaurs are like missing jigsaw pieces that help establish evolutionary connections, particularly around the Jurassic and Cretaceous period transition, approximately 140 million years ago."
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
I often ask an audience: what is the most important piece of a jigsaw puzzle?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
This was the type of case, not at all untypical in South Africa, that offered a moral jigsaw puzzle.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
It’s trying to go through these moral jigsaws to kind of justify certain things to themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
The company’s got jigsaws with sound effects, too, to delight the littlest puzzlers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
"You do have to be good at jigsaws in this game - it's not just as straightforward as people think," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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
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
These constant shifts of scene can be whiplash-inducing, and, at times, the chapters can feel jigsawed together — patchworks of examples undergirding premises stretched thin by all they are forced to contain.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2020
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
A screened porch with pillars of thin painted pine surmounted by scrolls and brackets and bumps of jigsawed wood.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
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
