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engrave

[en-greyv] / ɛnˈgreɪv /


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It took three years of training before he was allowed to engrave small pieces for customers.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 9, 2025

Before, to engrave the circuits on the silicon plates used in electronic devices like mobile phones, it was necessary to use polluting chemical products.

From Science Daily Jan. 24, 2024

I also love the fact that they could have put it in a font, in something computer-generated, but they chose to engrave it in my handwriting.

From Scientific American Jul. 7, 2023

Wear Jennie Yoon’s locket as a blank oval — she also sells a heart-shaped locket — or engrave it with a signature letter.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 2, 2022

This was something Lexie had heard her mother say enough times—into the telephone to Mrs. McCullough, anytime the case came up—to engrave it in her mind as fact.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Employing a nano-imprinting process that engraves the pattern like a stamp, the team achieved the rapid and inexpensive production of metalenses that are 20,000 times larger than conventional ones.

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2024

He said that many local business in the area, including his own, which engraves stone, had offered their time and resources to restore the structure.

From New York Times Jul. 6, 2022

A machine engraves information on an ingot of 99.98 percent pure palladium at the Krastsvetmet non-ferrous metals plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia March 10, 2022.

From Reuters May 15, 2022

And it is the distance between this country and the ideals it engraves upon marble edifices.

From Seattle Times Nov. 28, 2021

The pen engraves for every art and indites for every press.

From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Robert Elliott Flickinger

She’s been recognized for all three seasons of “The Diplomat” as well, yet is still waiting to see her name engraved on the trophy.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

The restaurant, with higher gross revenue than any other in America during its final year of operation, remains engraved in tragic legend.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Users on social media noticed the shape of the stadium engraved on the medal appeared to be carved in the wrong likeness.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

This does not mean organoids have memories like we tend to think of them -- such as recalling something from childhood -- but simply that their past is "engraved" on a cellular level, Arlotta emphasised.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

I have no such recollection of ever having mistakenly engraved a name on any tombstone, let alone a name as ridiculous as Proky.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

We see Holbein’s image of Anne multiplying through an 18th-century oil portrait; Jacob Houbraken’s 1738 engraving and a constellation of miniature copies; and Queen Victoria’s sketch of Giulia Grisi singing in Donizetti’s opera “Anna Bolena.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

At the foot of the coffin was an engraving of a pair of wings that were embroidered on one of her stage jackets.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

"There is not only a process of repeating signs: there is real visuo-spatial planning, as if the authors already had an overall image of the figure in mind before engraving it."

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

After seeing the stone engraving of the Declaration of Independence, Gina Linn Espinoza said her mind was racing with thoughts of the history that brought us to the present day.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2026

She passed the clapper to Reed, who traced the engraving of the rising sun with his fingernail.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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