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  • verb Present participle of recarve.

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Examples

  • We can imagine that time, on this relief, is represented in a progression from scene to scene, left to right, such that the sculptor may change our future, or our past, or our now, simply by shuffling this way or that and recarving this or that scene.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007

  • We can imagine that time, on this relief, is represented in a progression from scene to scene, left to right, such that the sculptor may change our future, or our past, or our now, simply by shuffling this way or that and recarving this or that scene.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • The replacement of the missing parts of some building blocks and a total recarving of others, together with the permanent fixing of all of the ashlar couses, took more time than envisioned, however.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects - Northwest Heroon Report 1 2003

  • Two lapis-lazuli disks (claimed to be Sumerian) have provided the basis for sweeping reconstructions of ancient topography, heirloom traditions, recarving methods, provincial artistic style, and military troop movements.

    Books: Scourge of the Forgery Culture 2001

  • KAGAN: Fascinating topic, the way they are recarving the districts in California.

    CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2001 2001

  • The shabby cushions had been replaced with brown velvet purloined from drapes taken from storage~ -- However, in the course of all the recarving, the wood had been pared down in some places to a precarious extent, and Tremane had been warned to be very careful when sitting on it.

    Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • The shabby cushions had been replaced with brown velvet purloined from drapes taken from storage~ -- However, in the course of all the recarving, the wood had been pared down in some places to a precarious extent, and Tremane had been warned to be very careful when sitting on it.

    Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • The firm's owners, Maggie and Hugh Tanchuck, were on hand as Andre Iwanczyk, a sculptor and stone restorer, used a chisel and diamond-tipped drills to do some recarving and smoothing-out of surface parts.

    NYT > Home Page By KARIN LIPSON 2011

  • Mr. Higgins, a Democrat, hired a longtime Albany insider, the former majority leader of the New York Assembly, Paul Tokasz, to do his bidding in the once-a-decade process of recarving the state voting map.

    NYT > Home Page By ERIC LICHTBLAU 2011

  • Kanakapura has become Bangalore Rural following recarving of seats.

    India eNews 2009

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