inserting

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More than a dozen large TV monitors display close-up video, also streamed online, of election workers’ hands inserting ballots into machines.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

By inserting itself into these plasmids, the cassette disrupts the resistance genes and makes the bacteria vulnerable to antibiotics again.

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026

Once logged in, I had the option to choose between five different filming feeds, each showing several hotel rooms - visible as soon as a guest triggered the electricity supply by inserting their key card.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Control rods are a device used to control the nuclear chain reaction in the reactor core, which can be accelerated by slightly withdrawing them, or slowed down or stopped completely by inserting them deeper.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

He made an effort with the most careful articulation and by inserting long pauses between the individual words to remove everything remarkable from his voice.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka