- past tense form of see.
saw
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In Gillis fans saw an everyman who was more complicated than he looked: a beer-drinking history nerd with jokes exploring the spectrum between manly and “gay,” liberal and “American!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
A heroic Leigh Leopards rearguard action saw them ruin Leeds Rhinos' 100% home record in Super League this season and pick up a vital two points in their hunt for a top-six spot.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
He said the United States hopes to deploy forces alongside its allies with "operational capability like you saw with the strikes on the drug boats" in the Caribbean and Pacific.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Workday shares saw their best-ever single-day performance Thursday on the back of buyout rumors, creating a ripple effect across the entire software sector.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
When she opened the door, she saw the place had come alive.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Performance and illusion are recurring themes: A woman is sawed in half in a depiction of classic stagecraft; elsewhere a juggler manipulates ovoids that each contain an everyday vignette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2025
For the majority of Americans, one of those legs has been effectively sawed off without an available pension.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024
They police sawed off the chain and rescued her.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024
The trees themselves had long been sawed for firewood and carried away.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
She has now been competing in logrolling for 28 years and began sawing and chopping more recently.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Emergency workers stood on the charred roof, still smelling of burning, sawing off damaged sections and tossing the debris into a pile.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
The high-pitched sound of an angle grinder sawing through glass echoed through the hall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Likewise, publishers who opt to create push-button novels will be sawing off the proximal tree limb with Wile E. Coyote abandon.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
I started by sawing it, but like most beginnings, it’s not much.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
It had been in my family for three generations — an upright of quarter sawn oak that probably hadn’t been properly tuned for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
He pointed out the painting had been "roughly sawn to get it into a frame", which the owner said his mother had done to make it fit.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2023
Rift sawn white oak flooring grounds the space.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
The tree trunks are laid in the street in front of the homes of those who purchase them, to be sawn down in backyard workshops.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
Then he emerged carrying a sawn section of tongue-and-groove planking and laid it down and entered the closet again and emerged with a metal box.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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