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
The U.S. has banned the sale of tools known as extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, which inscribe silicon wafers with microscopic patterns filled by billions of transistors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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
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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
A hundred frowny faces can’t console the grieving widow like a single piece of stationery on which a friend inscribes her sympathy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 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” is inscribed on the lavender band around its leg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Priests used this odd object, divided into zones inscribed with the name of a god, as a teaching tool: In a sacrificed animal, departures from the liver’s usual features were viewed as messages from deities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
She reaches an arm behind the monitor, pulls out a long sleeve, and unzips it to unveil a shiny red sword with golden Japanese characters inscribed onto the blade.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
She called for inscribing these rights into the French Constitution and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 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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