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Given his walking difficulties from childhood polio, I was advised never to insert myself between him and a wall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

They are currently trying to insert an amendment into the Railways Bill.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

To activate widget A, you insert doohickey B into slot C. Or you can delete the you, since it’s understood to be the subject.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

In between the book’s linked stories, Ms. Daanje inserts excerpts from those scant archives—Millicent’s letters, the poems and cryptic jottings from Eliza May’s notebooks—as well as passages from various later biographies of the Draydens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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

His mother works at the Bucks County Courier Times, feeding advertising supplements into a “big giant machine” that inserts them into the newspapers that get delivered to homes.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

Once inserted, the springs remain in place for several weeks to months, gradually reshaping the skull before being removed.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“There were a few instances in the negotiations where those protections were not going to be given, and in fact, the opposite was going to be inserted, which is unacceptable,” Carney said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Nepali army troops and engineers were working on Sunday to rescue workers believed trapped in a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydroelectric site after they successfully inserted a pipe into the passage.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

He’d been given a front of his neck so a breathing tube could be inserted into his trachea, or windpipe.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

There is even AI that will make such papers look student written by inserting a few errors or current slang terms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

It is rare for a natural vista to be made more beautiful by inserting architecture into it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The surgery involved inserting an endoscope - a thin camera on a stick - via the nose to the base of the skull.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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

A doctor operated to save my life by inserting a drainage system beneath my scalp.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals