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insert

[in-surt, in-surt] / ɪnˈsɜrt, ˈɪn sɜrt /


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While these intuitions are attempting to insert women into the male-dominated picture of the Viking age, descriptions of women’s lives and their social or cultural influence tend to be limited.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Inouye was a master of earmarks, a practice that allowed lawmakers to insert funding for specific companies by name in the federal budget.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The following year, Steinem, with several other feminist journalists, founded Ms. Its first, tentative edition, a 40-page insert into New York magazine, sold out in eight days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The words are randomly chosen at the last minute for Moynihan to insert within the prepared scripts, one of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

I myself tried to be mindful of that wall, learning from other First Ladies’ experience, taking care not to directly or overtly insert myself into West Wing business.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Three letters to describe a cord that our puzzle writer always inserts the wrong way?

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

The draft communique inserts previously unused language targeting "freedom of navigation in and overflight above straits" while separately calling for "unimpeded" passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Instead of spending the money on a pricey establishing shot of the car driving on the 101, Wain inserts a brief vintage clip of a ’70s-era taxi, humming along the road.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

A vet inserts a small chip about the size of a grain of rice under your pet’s skin that can be scanned in case they are lost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

While the doc leans over Shiloh and slowly inserts the needle in his side, I get up my nerve.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Texas, where Graczyk lives and works, does not allow observers in the execution chamber when the IV is being inserted, he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Flagg card was randomly inserted in a pack of Topps 2026 Chrome Basketball Update Series and placed on the market Aug. 6.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The last step is contracting skin and stimulating collagen with BodyTite, a radio-frequency treatment in which a tiny probe is inserted into the arm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Some have proposed that the Qumran community periodically inserted additional days or weeks to keep the calendar aligned with the seasons.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Hooper moved forward, inserted the key and pushed the heavy lid up.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

Researchers hope it could reduce the number of patients needing urgent, more invasive procedures, called cystoscopies, which involve inserting a small camera up the urethra and into the bladder.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Spend enough years standing behind pyramids of hamburgers, posing at fry stations and inserting yourself into the iconography of American restaurant chains, and eventually the props begin to accrue meanings of their own.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

It involves inserting electrodes made of materials such as zinc and copper into substances that contain moisture or ions, and then collecting the small but steady electrical currents.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

But in local disputes, the locals have every reason to get the oil flowing again eventually without the U.S. inserting itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Occasionally Cora’s mind tricked her and she’d turn the story into one of her memories, inserting the faces of ghosts, all the slave dead, who looked down at her with love and indulgence.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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