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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

If the company is able to achieve this level of precision, it could help chip makers inscribe even smaller microscopic lines into silicon wafers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

Over a period of six weeks, Heywood and Land roll and cut the clay, inscribe the disc with the honoree’s name and accomplishments, then apply the characteristic blue glaze and fire it in a kiln.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

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

I joined the ranks of the Artificery, studying how to blow glass, mix alloys, draw wire, inscribe metal, and sculpt stone.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

A hundred frowny faces can’t console the grieving widow like a single piece of stationery on which a friend inscribes her sympathy.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 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

The bust on sale depicts Daphne, Apollo's first love in Greek mythology, and is inscribed with the Latin phrase "me fecit Roma" - translating to "Rome made me".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

She said she inscribed it with, “Turn this book back into a tree.”

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The iconic D-Day landing beaches in Normandy were on Sunday inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, marking the culmination of a project launched nearly two decades ago.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

While five-year-old Joseph carefully inscribed his name on a line, a middle-aged man in a worn overcoat and swathed in a bright red scarf approached them.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

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

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

The diagnostic definition has changed dramatically in that time, inscribing children with a broad range of abilities, needs and behaviors within a single term: autism spectrum disorder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

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

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2025

She called for inscribing these rights into the French Constitution and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2022

Min was inscribing lotus blossoms and peonies between the ribbed lines of one of the melon vases.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park


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