carve up
phrasal verb
carved up; carving up; carves up
usually disapproving
: to divide something into small parts
The once beautiful countryside has been carved up by developers.
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The hope is that Neely can one day carve up batters in the Bronx the way those two did.
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
The 29-year-old right-hander carved up the Angels’ lineup with his elite five-pitch pitch mix — mostly his 95 mph cutter, sharp slider and devastating curveball.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
Our countryside is carved up by superhighways connecting bedroom suburbs with sprawling cities, with too many nowherevilles surrounded by parking lots and strip malls and ringed with sound barrier walls—all built to serve the sacred automobile.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
Much of the rap world has crowned Lamar as the man who runs the genre and shut down his nemesis, carving up someone he’s hated for years in a public humiliation.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
The 29-year-old right-hander carved up the Angels’ lineup with his elite five-pitch pitch mix — mostly his 95 mph cutter, sharp slider and devastating curveball.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
Our countryside is carved up by superhighways connecting bedroom suburbs with sprawling cities, with too many nowherevilles surrounded by parking lots and strip malls and ringed with sound barrier walls—all built to serve the sacred automobile.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
Much of the rap world has crowned Lamar as the man who runs the genre and shut down his nemesis, carving up someone he’s hated for years in a public humiliation.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
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“Carve up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carve%20up. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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