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engrave

[en-grayv] / ɛnˈgreɪv /


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Everyone who the company hires to engrave starts with zero experience, and part of the challenge is the process itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

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

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

Ambition has its vanity, and engraves a dubious victory; and Flattery will practise its art, and deceive us in gold!

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

She’s been recognized for all three seasons of “The Diplomat” as well, yet is still waiting to see her name engraved on the trophy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Suzanne, who is "so strong but not overly sentimental", sent her an engraved miniature picture frame out of the blue years later simply thanking Louise for being there when she was needed.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The book comes with engraved wooden medallions sourced from poplar trees at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s estate, that are illustrated by contemporary artists with thematic imagery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The hauntingly lighted displays include the engraved jaw of a sacrifice victim and footprints embedded in stucco, as if the Aztec teens had just run upstairs for a break.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“What would you like me to put on it?” the cashier asked when we went to get it engraved.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

"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

“Compromise - if the Carolina Hurricanes owner wants to do this how about just engraving ‘The Dundon Family’ instead of each name?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

When I think of people piling into funds with hot recent returns, I can’t help seeing this early engraving in my mind’s eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

“I don’t know why I love this part so much. But I love the engraving Raynar Northbrook put on Baldric Tanaris’s tomb after the Battle of the Weeping Vale.”

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner




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