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Then — and I’m not sure how you’ll do this — you must imbed belief, building upon the jilted relationships and smoldering ashes and shards of broken glass DeBoer left behind.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
While Trudeau may be the immediate benefactor, it also gives the Conservatives more time to imbed a new leader after their convention in September.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2022
He says circle hooks, which are bent farther toward the hook’s shaft, are likelier to imbed in the mouth and easier to remove before releasing the fish.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2016
As interactions with machines increase in our daily life, we will need to learn to imbed them with values that are aligned with ours.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2016
We have found no way to improve on Nature in this respect, for to-day when we desire to mount a specimen permanently for microscopical work, we imbed it in Canada balsam.
From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by William Beebe
“Expect an imbedded risk premium until there is more concrete news about the two sides meeting.”
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
“We have personnel imbedded to help and monitor.”
From The Verge ● Mar. 3, 2022
The experiment, which started in June, imbedded a “triage pod,” of paramedics, public health clinicians and dispatchers to review the best response to non-emergency 911 calls.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
Stair lights: Lights imbedded in a deck’s stair trim are handy if you have a dark stairway, and are generally easy to install.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
Beyond questions of appearance or language or personal style, the larger problem was imbedded within the political culture of postrevolutionary America itself.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Earwigs are horrid insects to get into a garden; they often come in with a load of manure, simply swarms of them imbedding themselves in such places.
From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle
Division of the subject.—Having treated of the imbedding of organic remains in deposits formed upon the land, I shall next consider the including of the same in deposits formed under water.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
Layers of concrete are laid over the roof rods to a thickness of from eighteen to thirty inches, and carried two inches below the rods, imbedding them.
From The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment by Anonymous
Lake, 466.Marine deposits, imbedding of land quadrupeds in, 749, 752.——, of human remains and works of art in, 756.——, of freshwater species in, 768.——, plants and animals imbedded in, 770.Marine vegetation.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
The molecules of iron, becoming incorporated in the now thick and viscous oil or imbedding themselves in the bearing, act as an abrasive; the black surface is removed, making the pivot again bright, but "ringed."
From Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology by William T. Lewis
