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You too might register some mild impatience, some of it directed at the movie itself, as if Haigh were fashioning an earnest tutorial on coming out to your dead parents.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

We were fashioning it with our hands, with pieces of things cut, drilled, bent, glued, and repurposed, and, as Thomas Paine remarked, imitating God’s creative capacity.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2018

They told us boys were failing to make friends because they couldn’t afford deodorant, and that girls were fashioning sanitary towels from newspaper or toilet roll.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2018

Why, he wondered, did Yale insist on a “Girder Gothic” faux cathedral while great minds elsewhere were fashioning a new age of minimalist, transparent, unsentimental architecture?

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2014

People were fashioning makeshift gurneys from baby carriages and trunks nailed to roller skates, pulling them themselves.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand