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inset

[in-set, in-set] / ˈɪnˌsɛt, ɪnˈsɛt /
VERB
inlay
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I recently was walking along 41st Street near the New York Public Library in Manhattan, where the sidewalks are inset with bronze plaques highlighting the power of words.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Police were called at about 13:20 BST on Monday after Kaliyah, who had been playing during a school inset day, entered the water near Bargehouse Causeway, near London City Airport in east London.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025

The infamous Bronco chase caused one television station to rearrange coverage of an NBA Finals game, featuring the chase on the main screen and the game as an inset.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Indicating the origin of an inset from an image is minimal; providing intensity scales for grayscale, color, and pseudocolor is recommended; and annotating image details such as pixel size and exposure time are ideal.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

At least, she was allowing someone else’s name to be inset upon the door of her office.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Eva Slater’s 1954 “Galaxy” insets a syncopated network of painted forms within a wooden panel, merging optical motion with material stasis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

And Mesa’s pictures, while including insets of standard subjects such as landscapes, are devoted mostly to ornamental patterns and enigmatic, tied-together totems.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022

Two gray ceramic hoops by Manal Kara, with photo-printed cotton insets, are weirdly charming, while Walter Price’s drawing “Eye Witness” is transfixing but inconclusive.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2021

Create an Instagram moment with this pendant earring in antiqued gold with pearl-like insets.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2018

The cement makes the most lasting bond in a mixture of this kind; moreover, the pebbly finish was effective and darker for the insets.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort

A gale nearly swamped them in rounding Cape Alexander, south of which they were forced to shore by the insetting ice-pack.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely

This system of insetting has the grave inconvenience that the advertiser finds himself compelled to print as many insets as the publisher asserts that he can use.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

First builded into the etheric form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials.

From Death—and After? by Annie Wood Besant


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