molding

Materials designed to curve and then hold that form are often produced by molding polymers and carefully controlling residual stresses inside them.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

In the 1950s, Miller began making figurines — often of dinosaurs and space aliens — using plastic injection molding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

There’s the cutting and molding of the cake into a cup.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026

He has added gold trim to the crown molding, smothered the walls with gold-framed artworks and gold-painted embellishments, placed inch-thick gold coasters on the desk, and lined up gold urns on the mantel.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

She’d meddled in his life since he was a baby, molding him to serve her purpose in this big prophecy, but at least she had been on their side, more or less.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

The palazzo is filled with ornate wall coverings and moldings, rococo furniture and artworks, and marble floors with intricately detailed inlays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Another living area boasts similar crown moldings, a cozy fireplace, and large windows that allow natural light to flood inside.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025

Inside, the ballroom is all white and gold like a czar’s summer palace, with coffered ceilings, gold-trimmed moldings, and crystal chandeliers.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025

It was an opera house, and it was really there, with its baroque moldings and balconies sprawling out atop the Empire Polo Club stage at this year’s Coachella festival.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

Von Rumpel limps through the rooms with their faded white moldings and ancient kerosene lamps and embroidered curtains and belle epoque mirrors and ships in glass bottles and push-button electrical switches, all dead.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr