saw
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"The pattern I am seeing is that whenever evidence comes out supporting prosecution, he claims he never saw it," Giuffra said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Other than North America, where revenues grew two percent, Nike saw declines in every other region.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
The resident who found the child told KNBC-TV that she was taking out the trash around 10:30 p.m. when she saw a black cloth bag inside the dumpster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Castillo saw Trump’s re-election as a unique opportunity to reset U.S.-Myanmar relations and considered Mercury a natural fit to lead the effort, he told the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“And the second gold Flash, who saw it? And what happened?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
That’s where she sawed apart a pair of her high heels to see what they were made of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
“I’m not the carpenter or the carpenter’s son,” he chanted as we sawed and drove nails, “but I’ll do the carpentryin’ until the carpenter comes.”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
“They’re under such a tight schedule here that we said, ‘Can you stop the sawing for eight minutes?’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
Aegon's carpenters had shaped it after the land of Westerns, sawing out each bay and peninsula until the table nowhere ran straight.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
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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