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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
carve .
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Examples
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Nobody thinks that rain carves statues or that wind swings axes or that "chance" creates life forms.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Nobody thinks that rain carves statues or that wind swings axes or that "chance" creates life forms.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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And it looks like it "carves", meaning it tilts into a corner in the same way a motorcycle does!
Toyota’s i-REAL Personal Mobility Concept Nears Commercialization | Impact Lab 2007
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And we already know that it was one of the most astonishingly UGLY hoaxes in recent American politics: Black "Obama supporter" robs, gropes and then "carves" a "B" for Barack backwards on the face of a Tareyton ad fake McCain staffer
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Illustrations, 'i.p. 215) both adduce quotations [as to' carves '], but they have missed the most apposite, _pointed out by Dr. Rimbault_ in his edition of Sir Thomas Overbury's Works, 8vo., 1856, p. 50. "
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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Princess Kay and her court each spend one day sitting in a revolving cooler while Linda Christensen, an artist who now lives in Oceanside, Calif., carves their likenesses in 90 pounds of butter.
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In the movie, she is a prostitute and he is a mogul who carves up failing companies for his own profit.
Dr. Jane Aronson: Partnerships... Smarter, Cheaper, Kinder Dr. Jane Aronson 2011
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In the movie, she is a prostitute and he is a mogul who carves up failing companies for his own profit.
Dr. Jane Aronson: Partnerships... Smarter, Cheaper, Kinder Dr. Jane Aronson 2011
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An Indian trader carves out a small niche for himself in an unnamed town that is in fact Kisangani, the site of the surreal urban warfare in Jason Stearns's book.
The Triumph of Fear Douglas Rogers 2011
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Smart stuff from him.108th over: Pakistan 295-8 Akmal 29 Ajmal 1 Akmal carves a short ball past slip, but Anderson dives across and intercepts the shot with his fingertips.
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