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inscribe

[in-skrahyb] / ɪnˈskraɪb /


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Depending on the magnitude of the game, and of the challenge, Burruss would name the cast after a mountain peak, and use a Sharpie to inscribe the cast accordingly.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2025

The U.S. has banned the sale of tools known as extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, which inscribe silicon wafers with microscopic patterns filled by billions of transistors.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 12, 2025

If you get sued, stress the expressive elements of your business, from your choice of furnishings, colors and fabrics to marketing, including the fanciful words you inscribe on the bibles in each room.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2023

They reveal the design, structure and scale of the marks humans inscribe on the earth, the extraordinary vistas not visible from ground level.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2023

So doth even the most absurd of habits, after a time, inscribe itself as law, and come to resonate as ineluctable truth.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

A high-powered laser pulse then inscribes these minuscule voxels into square glass plates that are roughly the size of a CD.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

For a reader self-identified as a “young budding historian obsessed with history,” Caro inscribes, “To a fellow history lover.”

From Seattle Times Dec. 18, 2023

At the end, Joe Kelly comes out wearing a white T-shirt, which his wife quickly inscribes with “Kelly 99” in marker on the back, revealing the fourth jersey number of his 13-year career.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2023

In addition to the path of a woman in the world of movie-making, Gerwig inscribes another personal theme: the relationship of an artist to her family.

From The New Yorker Dec. 31, 2019

There is no frost upon the windows of Marco’s flat, so he inscribes lines of symbols in the shape of a letter A with ink, pressing his darkened fingers against the panes.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

“KD1” is inscribed on the lavender band around its leg.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The D-Day landings join more than 50 French sites already inscribed on the list, alongside the spectacular Mont Saint Michel island in Normandy and the Palace of Versailles.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

Picasso had created a silhouette of me for the cover and inscribed in pen: “For Sylvette David, Picasso.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

There are many meanings that have been inscribed to “Cut Piece,” in which Ono invited the audience to come on stage and, with a pair scissors, cut off a small piece of her dress.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Pasted inside the front cover, surrounded by an elaborately inscribed tree, Celia can barely make out something that must once have been a newspaper clipping.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"They're inscribing something about their cosmology, their belief systems, into the earth itself in a very dramatic way."

From BBC Nov. 27, 2025

Choosing a message is important, but so is inscribing it in the asphalt.

From Slate Sep. 3, 2025

They left signed jerseys in their teammates’ lockers like classmates inscribing yearbooks after the school year, except the end came much more suddenly than any planned graduation.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 13, 2025

They also look for other ways to stand out, like inscribing a logo or lettering on the carpet, Mr. Baptista said.

From New York Times Mar. 10, 2023

Sumerian scribes had progressed to inscribing on clay tablets with sharpened reeds.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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