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engrave

[en-grayv] / 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

Might as well engrave the nameplate on the NFL offensive rookie of the year award now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

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

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

The beauty of the world consists in that sweet order, and harmonious subordination of all things, to that law God hath imposed upon them, or engraves upon their natures.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Snail mail is particularly charming, but absolutely nobody needs to design an engraved invitation to eat chili in somebody’s living room.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

One showed the Virgin Mary and was engraved with words from a traditional Catholic prayer in Polish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The cynic in me knows that, as surely as no Gutenberg protégé engraved this stationery, the happy accident of the extras befalls every customer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

This area also is home to where winners get their awards engraved.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Mrs. Farmer, do you know if Siobhan had anything engraved on the inside of her bracelet?”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

The writing is piercing and suspenseful, and Ms. Cline deserves praise for engraving a style recognizably her own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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

Twiggs testified that Robinson had asked weeks earlier about using an engraving tool in advance of an upcoming hunting and camping trip with his family.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Coca-Cola takes that engraving process a step further with a machine that snaps a photo of the user, then embosses that picture onto the iconic red can of soda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

He stared hard at the tiny engraving, trying to imagine it was real.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling


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