carve
Example Sentences
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“And we looked at it and said, ‘Where are the opportunities for us to go in and carve out?’”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
As their characters, Conforti, Blanchard and Ardies, deftly carve out discrete personalities beneath their plum-colored homogeneity, each playing a role that is, in turn, playing a role while also remaining desperately human.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Spain coach Luis de la Fuente called the chants "intolerable" and said "violent people use football to carve out a space for themselves".
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
"It's long enough to meaningfully shift anxiety levels, but not so long that listeners need to carve out a large block of time."
From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026
Then Min would carve out the design a bit at a time.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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