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engrave

[en-greyv] / 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

Might as well engrave the nameplate on the NFL offensive rookie of the year award now.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 17, 2023

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

Still weak from her tropical illness and pressed for time, she was forced to hire others to etch and engrave most of the copper plates based on her paintings.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

Nolan’s “Odyssey” engraves marvelous images onto the ancient oral poem.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

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

It engraves its mark,—it can be seen by all who read physiognomy—it says plainly—'Let not this man be trusted!'

From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie

Seven years and dozens of trips later, I engraved “I will travel with you” on the inside of our wedding rings.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

He enlisted three men to help him carry the ornately engraved silver case weighing around 180 pounds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

The Bacon Hole discovery came a decade after Nash found a reindeer engraved on the wall of a cave nearby, which was confirmed in 2012 as the then-oldest known rock art in Britain in 2012.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

It will be engraved with my name and the dates of my birth and death, and also with the symbols of six religions, carved in a single line.

From Salon Jun. 1, 2026

Mr. Chumley reaches under the podium and pulls out an engraved glass plaque.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

Twiggs testified that Robinson had asked weeks earlier about using an engraving tool in advance of an upcoming hunting and camping trip with his family.

From BBC Jul. 11, 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

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

From Science Daily Feb. 25, 2026

Before all of that upheaval, Crane was a big company in North Adams, giving job security and economic stability to employees like John Collins, its 66-year-old head of engraving.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

It was exactly the same as Sophie’s birthday gift from her father—the one he’d taken for engraving and never brought back.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman




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