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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
Wolfgang Ruth, Vulture, 1 May 2025
Those voices want the final package to hew closer to the $4 billion in cuts the budget mandates for the Senate, and not the $1.5 trillion the same plan requires of the House.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
One Piece studio Toei Animation also prefers to hew close to the manga.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2025
More likely to be affected are cheaper generic drugs, whose prices hew more closely to production costs.
—Rebecca Robbins, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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Up until this point in the five-film franchise, the movies had hewn pretty faithfully to the plots of Stephanie Meyer’s fantasy YA book series.
—Wolfgang Ruth, Vulture, 1 May 2025
Those voices want the final package to hew closer to the $4 billion in cuts the budget mandates for the Senate, and not the $1.5 trillion the same plan requires of the House.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
One Piece studio Toei Animation also prefers to hew close to the manga.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2025
More likely to be affected are cheaper generic drugs, whose prices hew more closely to production costs.
—Rebecca Robbins, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Hew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hew. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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