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Example sentences for: carve
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Justice officials bristle at the charge that the secret courts also carve out a de facto national-security exemption to both the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of warrantless surveillance and the Fifth Amendment's guarantees of due process.
Scientists found a new candidate for the missing link between apes and humans . The 2.5 million-year-old creature, dubbed Australopithecus garhi , evidently used stone tools to carve up the animals it killed and had much bigger teeth than its apelike ancestors.
The paper's main editorial Friday was not about the impeachment process but about a new revelation that Britain's D-Day commander and military hero, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, had referred 50 years ago to the African as "a complete savage" whose only hope would be a British colonial "master plan" to carve out giant West, Central, and East African federations and unlock their vast wealth for Britain's benefit.
Anyone can enjoy knowing how a $10 bill came to be called a sawbuck (the Roman numeral "X" that appeared on early notes reminded people of the wooden sawbuck used in carpentry), or how the word "robot" came into English (it comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning "drudgery," and was part of the title of a widely popular 1920 Czech play), or how the Indo-European root for "beech tree," "bhago-," gave us the word "book" (Germanic tribes used beech staves to carve runes on).
The cover story debates whether NATO's goal should be to carve up Kosovo or administer it as a protectorate.
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