sculpt
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I wanted to paint, I wanted to sculpt, I wanted to make music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The Murdochs declined to participate, but decades’ worth of archival footage gives Garbus plenty to sculpt.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
As the doctor’s apprentice, Little moves with him to Paris, where she helps sculpt figures for his new wax museum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
They can determine where crystallization occurs, reshape and "sculpt" the structures, and enhance their uniformity and size to create larger and more intricate colloidal assemblies.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026
While she wrote, the others leaned in, watching her sculpt the letters, each one a shivering architecture of dashes and curves.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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That wrist is how Alcaraz sculpts that spectacular drop shot that makes opponents quiver at the knees and would make Harry Hopman cry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Craning her neck into elegant lines, she sculpts herself into the rendering she wants.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
These features are constantly being reshaped as energetic starlight pushes and sculpts the surrounding material.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025
Ando sculpts intricate yet airy interiors, enlivened by dramatic voids or unexpected lightwells, out of slabs of concrete.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
I mean, who sculpts ten-foot-tall metal toes and sticks them in a junkyard?
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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A library of radically changed visages, sliced and sculpted to fit the funhouse-mirror beauty standards set by a handful of influential men.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Whether there is a physical change - or any need for one - is debatable, but fans of the massages claim they help "flatten" and "debloat" and give a "snatched waist" and "sculpted abs".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
At night, queues snake around the block outside nightclubs where DJ’s spin thumping house music for big-spending revelers, their faces sculpted by surgery and tanned by the sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
There were outdoor hallways, planted patios, a sculpted and porous internal courtyard, and even a new “paseo” next door — a closed street turned into a lovely space for farmers markets and other gatherings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Athena’s other hand rested on a shield as big as a billboard, with a sculpted snake peeking out from behind, as if Athena was protecting it.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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Technicians monitoring the monument’s 140 microfractures have noted that further high-impact sculpting would risk catastrophic rockfalls, potentially destabilizing the scupture of Abraham Lincoln.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
As he spent hours sculpting large, foam trees for the group, he says he fell in love.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Two stonemasons have won a snow sculpting prize as part of Team GB's entry to the World Snow Festival in Switzerland.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
"The hardest thing was sculpting his hair. Holy shmoly! Oi yoi yoi!" he exclaims.
From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026
The Bennington-Sarah Lawrence type looked like she’d spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard on under her dress.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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