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as in to mow
to bring down by cutting
laboriously hewed trees to build their rude log cabins
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as in to keep (to)
to give steadfast support to
no longer was able to hew to the party line and so he switched political parties
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Recent Examples of hew
Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 18 Oct. 2024
Amid the current war in Gaza, Ms. Harris has so far hewed closely to Biden administration policy, which has included sending some 40,000 U.S. troops, a dozen U.S. Navy warships, four fighter jet squadrons to the Middle East, and about $18 billion in military aid.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
Harris hews largely to traditional Democratic Party values but with a modern touch.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
She was also shot doing handstands beside the cheeses, cartwheeling in their presence, and reclining next to a large chunk of parmesan, with tantalizing flakes where it had been hewn off from the reel.
—Julia Buckley, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
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Steve Sherman, a research scientist at Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, says Houston’s size and diversity have long created various housing submarkets within it, some resembling Detroit and others hewing closer to Brooklyn.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 18 Oct. 2024
Amid the current war in Gaza, Ms. Harris has so far hewed closely to Biden administration policy, which has included sending some 40,000 U.S. troops, a dozen U.S. Navy warships, four fighter jet squadrons to the Middle East, and about $18 billion in military aid.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
Harris hews largely to traditional Democratic Party values but with a modern touch.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
She was also shot doing handstands beside the cheeses, cartwheeling in their presence, and reclining next to a large chunk of parmesan, with tantalizing flakes where it had been hewn off from the reel.
—Julia Buckley, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Hew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hew. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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