inscribe
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Depending on the magnitude of the game, and of the challenge, Burruss would name the cast after a mountain peak, and use a Sharpie to inscribe the cast accordingly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
If the company is able to achieve this level of precision, it could help chip makers inscribe even smaller microscopic lines into silicon wafers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
If you get sued, stress the expressive elements of your business, from your choice of furnishings, colors and fabrics to marketing, including the fanciful words you inscribe on the bibles in each room.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023
They reveal the design, structure and scale of the marks humans inscribe on the earth, the extraordinary vistas not visible from ground level.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2023
Isobel does not even inscribe her name upon the pages, referring to her in passing only as the illusionist, a precaution he advised himself and now regrets.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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A high-powered laser pulse then inscribes these minuscule voxels into square glass plates that are roughly the size of a CD.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
For a reader self-identified as a “young budding historian obsessed with history,” Caro inscribes, “To a fellow history lover.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
At the end, Joe Kelly comes out wearing a white T-shirt, which his wife quickly inscribes with “Kelly 99” in marker on the back, revealing the fourth jersey number of his 13-year career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
It develops its drama on an international scale and inscribes it on the world-striding map of industrial politics of a historic scope, while remaining family-friendly and sentimental about domestic life.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2019
There is no frost upon the windows of Marco’s flat, so he inscribes lines of symbols in the shape of a letter A with ink, pressing his darkened fingers against the panes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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The bust on sale depicts Daphne, Apollo's first love in Greek mythology, and is inscribed with the Latin phrase "me fecit Roma" - translating to "Rome made me".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
She said she inscribed it with, “Turn this book back into a tree.”
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
KD1 — which is inscribed on her leg band — hails from the Prado Basin, some 70 miles southwest of Big Bear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Picasso had created a silhouette of me for the cover and inscribed in pen: “For Sylvette David, Picasso.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The sphere was constructed from five concentric rings, each inscribed with zodiac symbols—the bull, the scorpion, et cetera—and seemingly random numbers and letters.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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Choosing a message is important, but so is inscribing it in the asphalt.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2025
They left signed jerseys in their teammates’ lockers like classmates inscribing yearbooks after the school year, except the end came much more suddenly than any planned graduation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
Mr Rimmer explains that his systems can provide that failsafe verification, by inscribing data inside the diamond - data that is impossible to remove, but does not devalue the gem in any way.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2022
So they decided to sublimate the chaos of the invasion, inscribing their new fears and hopes on pre-existing works by 17 artists.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
Now imagine trying to estimate the size of the triangle by inscribing little rectangles inside the triangle.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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