etching
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Read: There have been updates over time, but the original glass etching featuring a mythical unicorn remains on a window in the study.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The event includes Woman with an Arm Tattoo, an etching depicting Sue Tilley, and runs until 13 September.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
On the picture’s lower left lie three tools of the engraver’s trade: two burins, for making large designs, and an etching needle for smaller ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Until now, most MXenes have been produced using chemical etching, a process that leaves a mix of surface atoms such as oxygen, fluorine, or chlorine scattered randomly across the material.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2026
A huge, black bird springs out; it perches on her bureau, looking just like the etching of the raven in Yo's first English poetry book.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
If he grew tired of drawing, Hockney would take photographs, do etchings or design operas.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
The etchings were all created using Blake's own "illuminated printing" technique.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
There’s a stunning group of watercolors, seemingly breathed onto the paper, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, fragile etchings by Whistler and dazzling, light-struck waterside scenes by Sargent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025
The Wall Street Journal published an editor’s note walking back its reporting, noting that Cox’s description of the etchings included no references to the transgender community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
I stare at the scims in my hands, a matched set with intricate black etchings that probably have no equal in the Empire.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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