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She never incited anger; she simply pointed out the facts as she saw them and let human nature take its course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

A few weeks later my dad saw “Stand and Deliver,” the inspiring movie about high-school math teacher Jaime Escalante, who pushed his inner-city students to excel in Advanced Placement calculus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Before the conflict, Brent was about $70 a barrel, but the fighting saw it peak at above $120.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The U.S. bond market saw a similar story play out only a few weeks ago, when Bessent’s plan to at least double buybacks of long-dated government bonds only briefly paused the Treasury market selloff.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

I tell her how I looked over the man’s shoulder and saw clearly into his foyer.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

In director Guillermo del Toro’s take on the classic fable Frankenstein, Elordi glows an undead white as the monster, his body a patchwork of human parts sawed off of Crimean War corpses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

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 alerted the police who sawed off the chain and rescued her.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024

He leaned over the fire and sawed a thin slice of meat from the kid.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

This felt manageable until I found myself, a few weeks in, sawing at a kabocha squash with a butter knife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

Within hours of the latest missile strike this weekend, dozens of workmen were clearing up the mess around the apartment block and sawing wood to seal windows.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024

“I don’t see much difference between that and sawing off the extra leg,” said Matt.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

While it is tougher to work with than natural timber, it can still be sawn in a traditional manner with carbide or diamond-tipped blades.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025

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

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