as in developed
to produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort
finally carved out a niche for the sport in the school's athletic program
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Fort Worth is now considering a tax break for Edged Data Centers, a subsidiary of sustainable infrastructure company Endeavor, for a data center to be developed on that land.—
Emily Holshouser,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Mar. 2026 -
The team at the University of Edinburgh has developed this natural, biological process.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2026
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Ruiz is now facing embezzlement, perjury, and filing false or forged instrument charges in Custer County District Court.—
Ashlynd Baecht,
The Frontier,
19 Mar. 2026
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Without so much as an introduction, the man began describing a way to create currency that couldn’t be forged.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Mar. 2026
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And that’s the exact advantage Mansfield Summit’s smothering defense created in the Class 5A Division II state championship.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Mar. 2026
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
15 Mar. 2026
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Now this got several corners of the ol’ interwebs worked up into quite a lather.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
7 Mar. 2026
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For years, corrections officers at Louisville’s jail have consistently worked up to 16 hours of overtime each week due to staff shortages.—
Monroe Trombly,
Louisville Courier Journal,
6 Mar. 2026
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In December, a Missouri appeals court rewrote the language that Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins had crafted for the measure.—
Jack Harvel,
Kansas City Star,
17 Mar. 2026
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If actors are only ever seen in costume for films and television or in red carpet looks crafted by stylists, then when do audiences get to know them?—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
17 Mar. 2026
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Denver reached out to Trautman on Sunday afternoon and an agreement got hammered out in a matter of hours.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
8 Mar. 2026
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And that’s just a small part of multiple wide-ranging transportation packages that will have to be hammered out between the chambers with just over a week remaining in the regular session.—
Jim Turner,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Carved (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carved%20%28out%29. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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