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engrave

[en-grayv] / ɛnˈgreɪv /


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Everyone who the company hires to engrave starts with zero experience, and part of the challenge is the process itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

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

A love lock is a padlock couples can engrave with their names before adding to a bridge, fence or installation at a special destination.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

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

After forging the blade, she had spent another three months using Transformation to engrave the weapon, imbuing it with its magical properties.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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 firm prints, engraves, electroplates, sews, binds, publishes, and sells wholesale and retail.

From North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope

Snail mail is particularly charming, but absolutely nobody needs to design an engraved invitation to eat chili in somebody’s living room.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

One showed the Virgin Mary and was engraved with words from a traditional Catholic prayer in Polish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Once a winner accepts their prize on TV, they are taken across the street to get their awards engraved, take photos and chat with reporters.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

She could feel the lingering oil from Nehemia’s hands and smell her friend’s lotus-blossom scent on the engraved wood.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

Each ring will include a mini World Cup trophy in its design and an engraving in the band.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

A stone engraving of the Declaration of Independence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

More than 40,000 years ago, early humans were already engraving symbols onto tools, figurines, and other objects.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026

Tools were produced in diverse and distinctive shapes so modern that their functions as needles, awls, engraving tools, and so on are obvious to us.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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