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Such attempts to use information flows, in theory or practice, to carve nature at its joints are “the beginning of sketching out ideas and concepts that could be potentially foundational for new areas of biology,” Hoyal Cuthill said.

Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

Her new paradigm leads her to carve up shibboleths and heroes alike.

I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself.

In Brazil, there was a microcosmic slice of the kind of public role he is attempting to carve.

Could it just be that prison itself conditions a sort of pavlovian reaction to carve chess pieces?

He wanted to carve out for himself a place of position and power.

I wonder I never had sufficient wit to carve out one like this before.

I shudder when I see them brandish their knives in act to carve, and look on them as savages that devour one another.

These serve admirably to carve, and are very pretty when coloured or ivoried, bronzed in antique style, or otherwise ornamented.

It is something to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful.