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Oh, and don’t forget inside linebacker and converted quarterback Jack Colletto — a 6-3, 239-pound sledgehammer — who has chiseled six touchdowns as a gargantuan goal-line back.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2022

Under Italian coach Alberto Zaccheroni, Japan has chiseled a style based on relentless pressure and precision play-making to force opponents onto the defensive.

From Washington Times • Jun. 15, 2014

Enter Harvey Fierstein, who has chiseled a sweet, funny, emotionally satisfying book from Bob Tzudiker and Noni White’s screenplay.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2011

A sometimes savage critic, John Simon, wrote that she was "ageless. ... tempered like steel, baked like clay, annealed like glass; life has chiseled, burnished, refined her."

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2010

At this date, his attitude has not developed, but stands as a block of marble a sculptor has chiseled enough to show a statue is intended, but not sufficiently to disclose the sculptor's purpose.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)