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notching

verb

present participle of notch

as in carving

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Imagine a termite carving a path like a jumbled ball of string through a tree trunk, instead of an axe cleaving a single vector.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2026
When most of us think about edible seeds, our minds usually jump to chia seeds stirred into smoothies or overnight oats, pumpkin seeds roasted after carving jack-o'-lanterns each fall, or sunflower seeds chewed and spit out at a baseball game.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026

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Speirs began moving and grooving between innings, choreographing dances for each player’s walk-up song.

— Abigail Dollins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2026
One of the video's most memorable sequences features Madonna grooving to the dance-pop track while riding a gondola.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 4 Aug. 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
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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The next year, health authorities linked a cyclospora outbreak in part to Taylor Farms, tracing it back to the same central Mexico facility implicated in this year’s outbreak.

— Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
These digital assets and the underlying technology behind them are forcing investigators and financial institutions to become more sophisticated in tracing this illicit activity.

— Mitchell Silber, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026

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After scoring the equalizer in the ninth, the Astros scored three runs off Jason Foley to take the lead for good.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
On Friday’s first night of competition in Phoenix, Rivera made an uncharacteristic mistake on the uneven bars, falling from the apparatus and scoring almost two points below her typical output.

— Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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