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It also runs an inset on the train derailment near Lewes as part of its coverage of what it calls "Heatwave devastation."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
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
I had seen her once, at, the end of the L-shaped corridor, standing in front of an open door with bars on the square, inset windows.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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
The architectural presence of Scully’s work is furthered by the scale of his largest paintings, the brick-like patterning of many works, and the physical cobbling together of multiple panels, including insets and overlaid pieces.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
And the wood, of course, is perfection: Alaskan yellow cedar posts, Western red cedar beams, entry stairs with bamboo insets — with all wooden joints shaped by hand, by Makoto.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2021
Almost inevitably there are marble floors with truffle insets, acres of Persian carpets, hard-backed settees upholstered in maroon leather, silk-shaded ginger-jar table lamps casting light on phalaenopsis orchids planted in generic tole jardinières.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
After the rio, the fine blackened Corner Spinelli with porphyry insets.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley
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
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
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
