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engrave

[en-greyv] / ɛnˈgreɪv /


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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

A love lock is a padlock couples can engrave with their names before adding to a bridge, fence or installation at a special destination.

From Seattle Times Oct. 16, 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

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

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

Arvilly said: “You’ll find the nation that opens its sessions with prayer, and engraves on its money, ‘In God We Trust,’ don’t believe in such things.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley

Using geometric and statistical techniques that had not previously been applied to these artifacts, the team reconstructed the directions, angles, and paths of the engraved lines.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Aung San is "engraved in people's memory" as Myanmar's independence hero, and many see his legacy being continued by his daughter, according to Myanmar specialist Moe Thuzar.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Elsewhere are splendid cabinets with mother-of-pearl inlay, gorgeous enamel accessories, plush velvet textiles and engraved iron swords.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

The team determines which names from the management staff are engraved on the trophy, but all names must be approved by the Hockey Hall of Fame and NHL.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

It was simple: brown wood and a black engraved plate with gold trim.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

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

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

Erbium and neodymium are also important in making lasers for industrial engraving and cutting.

From Barron's Feb. 4, 2026

Why, then, did Copley show Revere at a workbench with his engraving tools spread out before him, holding a teapot as the object of his contemplation and offering it to us for our inspection?

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson




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