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Legendary mountaineer George Mallory wrote to his mother to say "the ink has begun to freeze" before he disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, newly-discovered letters have revealed.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Rather than modifying the ink with surfactants or chemically altering the particles, they dispersed nanoscale ultra fine bubbles throughout the liquid.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
The two had written messages on their caps in silver ink: On Alfonzo’s, “EyP, RIP,” the initials of his stepmother Patricia and his younger sister Eliana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
A lot of ink has been spilled in recent months predicting how new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh would face the wrath of President Donald Trump unless he could quickly deliver more interest-rate cuts.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
The air in here smells of ink and paper.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
The new monochrome packages will go on sale in Japan May 25, Calbee said, blaming difficulties procuring raw materials such as naphtha, a petrochemical used in paints and inks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
The CEO of Blick Art Materials told Hyperallergic that the company had “purchased more inventory than normal for a few product lines to hedge against higher costs,” such as paints, inks, and utensils.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2025
The studios didn’t then have screeners or digital inks for their films, so a run at the Malibu Cinema was a good way to reach Oscar voters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
The resulting flexible board withstood all sorts of electronics manufacturing processes, including cutting shapes into the boards with lasers, printing circuits on top of them with commercially used silver inks, and soldering components to them.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 24, 2024
Of those advances—in paper, movable type, metallurgy, presses, inks, and scripts—paper and the idea of movable type reached Europe from China.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Officials say contracts worth billions of dollars should be inked with US and European firms at a side forum.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
That’s even as investors may be underestimating the potential of recently inked customer agreements, because of the way these deals were structured in the past.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Senior US officials also began giving some details about the contents of the deal, briefing that the Strait of Hormuz would re-open on Friday - the same day the deal is formally inked in Geneva.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
And already, Marsch and Canada are so committed to one another that they inked a four-year contract extension, before the World Cup even kicked off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Andrew tore at the tape and plastic bag protecting the thick yellow envelope with “Clue” inked on the front.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Instead—during a summer when other players were inking deals north of $250 million—Brunson sat in the NBA’s bargain bin, and the Knicks could scoop him at just the 46th-highest salary in the league.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
There were no actual tattoos on offer, given inking one requires time and space, but visitors could get stickers by artists for free.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
The tech giant is pursuing new research avenues that the company hopes will put its AI models on par with rivals, after inking a reworked deal with ChatGPT parent OpenAI in 2025.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
And when troops return, artists are busy inking tributes to fallen comrades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader’s.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
