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as in mowing
to bring down by cutting laboriously hewed trees to build their rude log cabins
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Recent Examples of hewing 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 Season 1 includes 10 episodes, each hewing close to 30 minutes. —Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025 This year, with supply hewing closely to typical seasonal patterns, expect the usual post-summer wave of new inventory to arrive. —John Walkup, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2026 Season 1 includes 10 episodes, each hewing close to 30 minutes. —Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025 This year, with supply hewing closely to typical seasonal patterns, expect the usual post-summer wave of new inventory to arrive. —John Walkup, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Pure ‘mowing the lawn’ has never worked.— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
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Never cut more than one-third of the grass height when mowing.— Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
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What researchers do know is that the sounds come from stick-slip friction—the regular cycles of two objects adhering and moving between one another.— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2026
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Homeowners should avoid painting the exterior of their home if the temperature or humidity is expected to fluctuate significantly, as this could leave bubbles or prevent the paint from adhering properly.— Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Jan. 2026
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Another part of the campus has dozens of roofs just sticking above the ground as the shingles freeze and bake and are soaked by Mother Nature sometimes for more than a decade for more testing.— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
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However, not everyone is sticking the landing on this.— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
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The Magic weren’t supposed to be here, clinging to survival in the play-in tournament.— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
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On the walk back to the inn, Henry veered off the trail to pick up a fallen branch, gray and forked with one crisp leaf clinging obstinately on.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
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“Hewing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/hewing. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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