inscribe
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The Kennedy Center’s board of trustees on Thursday voted to move forward with President Trump’s plan to close the building for renovations and to inscribe his name on the building to commemorate the upgrades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
During Greco-Roman times, Egyptian artists were called upon to inscribe funerary spells on linen mummy bandages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
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
Now there are two more names to inscribe on the wall of remembrance.
From BBC ● May 26, 2022
Isobel does not even inscribe her name upon the pages, referring to her in passing only as the illusionist, a precaution he advised himself and now regrets.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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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
Warren’s scene takes place at a book signing, where she inscribes a book for a fellow-senator, played by John Goodman, promising that she’s not going to run for President.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 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
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The phrases "One Nation Under God" and "Liberty and Justice for All" are inscribed in gold on either side of the structure.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
He sent a beautiful cross and behind was inscribed, “Be joyful, keep the faith, do little things.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 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
His tombstone would be a simple plaque, inscribed: “Herbert Goldfarb, 1948-?” And then: “He rode Sunflower.”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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"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
What anchors the “Bolañoverse,” our reviewer, Garth Risk Hallberg, commented, is “the loss of youth inscribing a larger loss of historical possibility.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
He lobbied her for several days, even inscribing a copy of his book, Infections and Inequalities, “For Peggy McAvoy with a big hug of solidarity and with high hopes for your help in Haiti.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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