saw
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Geoje city saw 124.5mm of rain in a one-hour period, the highest since South Korea's meteorological agency started keeping records for the city in 1972.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
AFP saw several residents of the small town of Mbay, in Nagekeo regency nearest the epicentre, camped out in makeshift tents they had erected using tarpaulins and poles.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
This week saw a new milestone when Nvidia and a host of Wall Street entities announced plans to deploy $500 billion of capital to provide financing at “attractive rates” for chip purchases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“His world shrunk. We’re used to 50,000 people and you saw, what, one or two a day?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The scruffy student explains, “I saw Picnic_ant at the grocery store a couple of weeks ago. She bagged my food. Actually, she’s there every Friday afternoon, so.”
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
Over months, he’d sawed wooden two-by-fours to use as a brace between the front door and an interior wall to make it harder to breach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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
He sawed and sawed, and the tape merely lengthened and didn’t break.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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
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
Not even Clippers owner Steve Ballmer’s signature, decibel-raising remarks could drown out the sound of sawing and heavy machinery throughout the presentation, which confirmed news that first became known late last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
She rummaged through a stack of lumber, brought several long, narrow pieces over to a pair of sawhorses, and began sawing them into paired lengths.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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
Hampered by his left knee for so long, he had just got back to chest-pumping all-rounder status in the home summer when he was sawn off by his hamstring.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024
The Customs Department said in a statement it discovered the contraband hidden behind sawn timber following checks on July 10 on a ship coming from Africa.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
Rift sawn white oak flooring grounds the space.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
The Elves sat round the fire upon the grass or upon the sawn rings of old trunks.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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