engrave
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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
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
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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
Master Lucas, who engraves in copper, invited me as his guest.
From Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries by Rudolf Tombo
The package included a one-pound brass ticket engraved with the owner’s name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
The cynic in me knows that, as surely as no Gutenberg protégé engraved this stationery, the happy accident of the extras befalls every customer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Evans told Owen that she unexpectedly burst into tears while watching his Emmy awards being engraved, saying that was the moment it "sank in".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
I was surprised the quote engraved on that thick marble slab was from one William Wordsworth and not the Bible.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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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
When I think of people piling into funds with hot recent returns, I can’t help seeing this early engraving in my mind’s eye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
Over and over, Maria sank the sharp point of the wood-handled engraving tool, called a burin, into the polished metal, carving up tiny curls of shining copper.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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