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Another fun and unusual offering here is gourd art ($109), which is much more elaborate than carving a pumpkin.—
Mindy Sink,
Denver Post,
14 May 2026 -
Given her schedule, carving out time for speeches, may take some scheduling.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
13 May 2026
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That said, Evermore's summer programming—beach DJs, movie nights on the sand, a resident sand sculpting artist, and holiday weekend events like a July 4th carnival and Labor Day Bay Games—makes staying put genuinely tempting.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 May 2026
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For the single take prologue, Pawlikowski kept sculpting it with Diehl, taking things out, putting them back in, to reach the right length and cadence.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
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The religious men took up residence among the locals—people who spent their days tending cows and sheep, churning butter, weeding onions and turnips, scouring the forests for mushrooms, and chiseling sculptures from the local limestone.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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Moyes knows this squad well, both its strengths and weaknesses, and has become adept at chiselling out points on his travels.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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After the fall 2026 menswear shows came to a close back in January, Vogue’s Laird Borrelli-Persson reported that men’s clothes were hewing closer and closer to womenswear.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2026
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Season 1 includes 10 episodes, each hewing close to 30 minutes.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Tempo didn’t make things easy, cutting the deficit to two points late and later trailing by just three with 31 seconds remaining and possession of the ball.—
Marisa Ingemi,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2026
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The bridge demonstrates a new, lighter approach to low-carbon infrastructure, cutting waste and CO₂ by depositing concrete only where needed.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
16 May 2026
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“Knapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knapping. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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