inscribe

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During Greco-Roman times, Egyptian artists were called upon to inscribe funerary spells on linen mummy bandages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

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 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

The Runes were magical inscriptions, immensely powerful for him who could inscribe them on anything—wood, metal, stone.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton