jigsaw
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"These teddies don't have the CE safety mark and they're also very dirty," she says, before showing me a toddler's wooden jigsaw.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Selznick deplored Hitchcock’s “goddamn jigsaw cutting,” the dreamlike, jagged images that create his signature subjectivity, but Webb didn’t mind it at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Our local dinosaurs are like missing jigsaw pieces that help establish evolutionary connections, particularly around the Jurassic and Cretaceous period transition, approximately 140 million years ago."
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
I often ask an audience: what is the most important piece of a jigsaw puzzle?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Two spools of thread, one white chess bishop, and six parts of a jigsaw puzzle...A teaspoon and a closed box of safety matches...A radish, two pennies, a nickel, and a golf ball.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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In the most recent example, Time magazine this week launched Time Games, featuring online word puzzles and jigsaws made from its iconic magazine covers.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
It’s trying to go through these moral jigsaws to kind of justify certain things to themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Ms Dickinson, who started doing jigsaws with her daughter Holly during lockdown, said Ms Clifton's mention of the competition had prompted them to enter.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2023
And the retailer offers a collection of dynamic, artsy jigsaws from Puzzles of Color, a company started by Texas siblings Ericka Chambers and William Jones to promote artists of color.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
More clutter on the third floor: boxes of jars, metal disks, and rusty jigsaws; buckets of what might be electrical components; engineering manuals in piles around a toilet.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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What’s left of the jigsawed and taped-up pages might not provide the thoroughgoing record of his presidency that the law demands, but they are a wrenching testament to his penchant for wanton destruction.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022
On the album’s cover, his jigsawed visage lies in the grass — either a heartbroken Humpty Dumpty or pop music’s missing piece.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
Wachtendonk said that folks will usually ask of the flying machines, jigsawed together with found objects, rotisserie motors and leftover rivets, embellished with metal lanterns, tiny wheels and painted wings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2019
Ochoa has just opened his second restaurant, Salazar, a Sonora-style barbecue place jigsawed into the former mechanic’s shop for which it’s named.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2016
She picked it up and turned back the jigsawed lid.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
She spends her days jigsawing state and federal funding sources for new water systems, and answering residents’ frequent calls about when they’ll be connected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Then, staffers from the White House Office of Records Management were generally responsible for jigsawing the documents back together, using clear tape.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022
South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.5% to 3,205.83 after jigsawing earlier in the day.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
Though they had some wiggle room, it still took an entire summer of jigsawing to get it to work at Moravian and Swain, for example, school leaders said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2021
This allowed them to continue jigsawing dislocated fragments to put their own ideas into Nietzsche’s mouth.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2018
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