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saw

[saw] / sɔ /


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After throwing his first touchdown pass to Cordero on fourth down, Coleman saw his 300-pound teammate, Kingston Williams, moving toward him in a celebratory mood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

She said she ran out and saw an elderly driver and passenger, who are both regulars to the shop, in the car.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Blue Owl Credit Income Corp. said it saw estimated third-quarter redemption requests representing 16.8% of shares, or $3.1 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Another buyer saw a home listed for $450,000 and offered $415,000 to the seller.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

I saw the flags inside the displays the first day of school, my freshman year.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Alan Dorfman held an Etch A Sketch over a laundry tub, picked up a hacksaw and sawed the device in half, spilling silver powder everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

But it also means that the horns grow back and need to be sawed off repeatedly.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2025

The crews working on electric vehicles disconnected the voltage cables to air bags and seat belts, sawed off the tops of the cars, and flipped the vehicles over to access the battery packs underneath.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

As mementos, visitors stole ears of corn from the field and sawed young fruit trees into pieces of wood.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

The competition, which Hayward has been hosting since 1960, brings people from across America and around the world together to showcase their skills in everything from logrolling, chopping and sawing to speed climbing.

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 could almost feel our string sawing his.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

A giant gorilla statue which was stolen from a Lanarkshire garden centre a year ago was "sawn in half" before being discarded under a hedge, according to its owner.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2024

A statue of British naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 charted Sydney’s coast, was sawn off at the ankles, and a Queen Victoria monument was doused in red paint.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Rift sawn white oak flooring grounds the space.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022

It smelled sweetly of varnish and freshly sawn cedar.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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