inset
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They act as deep coffers for the inset skylights, recalling Kahn’s Yale museum, while their V-shaped section gives them a central channel in which the mechanical systems are concealed, performing their duties unseen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
The school year will still be 195 days, including the five inset staff training days.
From BBC ● May 27, 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
We sat in his study on stuffed brown leather chairs, surrounded by stacks of dusty, incomprehensible books with huge formulas inset artistically on the page like poems.
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
There is sight, of course, with color insets of Schloss’s bright and optimistic daubings alongside work by her more dour-seeming contemporaries.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
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
Blatty wrote in the wood-paneled library, with its elegant marble-surround fireplace and built-in shelves adorned with clamshell insets.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2017
Typical profiles of the soil to depths of three meters are printed as insets on each sheet and localities where these apply are indicated by corresponding numbers in red on the map.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)
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 Besant, Annie Wood
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
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 Greely, Adolphus W.
