lapidary

There’s a lapidary quality to Mr. Pence’s manifesto, and it’s worth noting that he invokes Isaiah: “look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Clarifying all of this was the lapidary statement of Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, a former wrestler and mixed martial artist who has been selected as Kristi Noem’s replacement at DHS.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

Readers were clamoring for literary works that deployed irony, lapidary prose and an artful yet steely-eyed glimpse into the conflict.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023

“In other words, it’s an Almodóvar movie with all the attendant gifts that implies: lapidary technique, calculated perversity, intelligent wit.”

From New York Times ● May 14, 2020

It would have been too much to hope for names from the lapidary in Paris.

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

Two layered discs carved out of Dalmatian jasper support a pink-hued thulite bowl; the materials were selected by the brand’s gemologists and cut and polished by lapidaries to bring out their full character.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2024

U.S. prisons were to be the ultimate social experiment, where lapidaries of the soul would smooth and polish criminals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amateur lapidaries order rough masses of aquamarine, rose quartz, agate.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had to call in professional lapidaries to help with the cutting and polishing, but still managed to turn out some 100 pieces in his own workshop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the past weeks in Paris, in the hours between other tasks, he has narrowed a list of seven lapidaries to three, then to one: a half-Algerian named Dupont who came of age cutting opal.

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