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
Might as well engrave the nameplate on the NFL offensive rookie of the year award now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
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
This was something Lexie had heard her mother say enough times—into the telephone to Mrs. McCullough, anytime the case came up—to engrave it in her mind as fact.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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
They say that every day he keeps his walk amongst these woods and melancholy shades, and on the bark of every senseless tree engraves the tenor of his hapless hope.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
In 1984, Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pocklington had the name of his father, Basil Pocklington, engraved even though Basil held no position with the team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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
During his trip, he inspected the centuries-old Chola Plates, rings with engraved copper plates, that are being returned to India by Leiden University.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
On the one hand, there was perspective painting, grounded in geometrical abstraction; on the other, the printing of engraved plates, supplemented by text produced on a printing press.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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At one point, Arkapaw rushed off the engraving platform to retrieve her phone from an assistant to document the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 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
The publishers – Cadell and Davies – paid 20 guineas for the new painting which they planned to use as an engraving in all future editions of Burns' books.
From BBC ● Jan. 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
A family of alchemists at work, an engraving by Philip Galle, after a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, published by Hieronymus Cock, c.1558.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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