chipping
Britishnoun
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Workers spent a day and a half chipping away at the degraded concrete around the hole, before pouring the new concrete Saturday.
From Seattle Times
"I just appreciate more anything that all my friends and family and and even just complete strangers are just reaching out and spreading their energy love and chipping in, it's just amazing."
From BBC
“Every win, especially right now, you need everyone going, everyone chipping in and everyone elevating their game,” Schwartz said.
From Washington Times
“We don’t need something that’s just chipping away at the problem, but a new focus on longer-term solutions to it. What we do know is that things are not working right now.”
From Washington Post
The court has heard she used carpet, bark chippings bought from a hardware store, soil, concrete building blocks, bricks and planks to bury her partner's body.
From BBC
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