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He describes his efforts as “more akin to whittling at a piece of wood—for I am removing word after word until what remains seems to be the truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

However, Van Der Beek himself ended up building what would become the couple’s favorite piece: a wooden daybed that he designed not long after they welcomed their fifth child, Gwendolyn, in 2018.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

In the Women's Underhand Chop, where competitors stand on a piece of wood and chop between their feet, she cut through 11in of white pine in 21.28 seconds.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

In a piece for Dallas’ ABC affiliate, correspondent Patti Burns said: “No one knows exactly what makes a movie a hit. But one thing is for sure: ‘The Exorcist’ has got it.”

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Our meals arrive, and Dad slides a piece of tomato pie onto his plate.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

“Our home was a crazy jumble of pieces from different places we’d lived in before, all commingling, but not very happily; I called it the Island of Misfit Furniture.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Video released by the US-based NGO Beneath The Waves shows one orca holding the tail of a sunfish, with its fellow whale then charging with full force into the rotund mola, which explodes into pieces.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

More than 220,000 pieces of football merchandise were recovered by the Police Intellectual Property Office as part of Operation Bloxwich, a UK police enforcement effort targeting counterfeit goods.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Here’s how the new pieces work, plus feedback from runners who’ve road tested them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

We spent the next twenty minutes holding various pieces against the dress, trying them on Anna May, and discussing how she’d style her hair.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The summer squad rebuilding plans are being pieced together in the belief Rashford will not be part of them.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

"If you took all the land on Earth and pieced it together, you would not cover the Pacific Ocean. The oceans are so big, and there's so much left to explore."

From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026

"If you took all the land on Earth and pieced it together, you would not cover the Pacific Ocean," Voight pointed out.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

For several years, many of these migrants, virtually all of whom had a pending asylum claim or other temporary legal status, pieced together lives on the margins of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

They crept into the kitchen and found everything in there pieced together, too.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Chief government veterinary officer Beth Cookson said scientists were still piecing together the details of how H5 might be spreading.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Trump’s emissaries—his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his realtor friend Steve Witkoff—came close to piecing together such a deal through Pakistan emissaries.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026

Now, Korda is back on the type of rare run that few are capable of piecing together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

They spend hours in lines, piecing together meals from whatever they can find, constantly worrying about what to put on the kitchen table tomorrow.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026

“I am still piecing this patchwork quilt together, Mrs. Wigginbottom,” I explained.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan