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During Greco-Roman times, Egyptian artists were called upon to inscribe funerary spells on linen mummy bandages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Depending on the magnitude of the game, and of the challenge, Burruss would name the cast after a mountain peak, and use a Sharpie to inscribe the cast accordingly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

"Mr Onakoya is a symbol of excellence and resilience that distinguish Nigerians both at home and abroad... Go, make history, and inscribe our name in gold," Nigeria's Vice-President Kashim Shettima posted on X.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024

If you get sued, stress the expressive elements of your business, from your choice of furnishings, colors and fabrics to marketing, including the fanciful words you inscribe on the bibles in each room.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023

The first step was to inscribe a triangle inside the parabola.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

A high-powered laser pulse then inscribes these minuscule voxels into square glass plates that are roughly the size of a CD.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

For a reader self-identified as a “young budding historian obsessed with history,” Caro inscribes, “To a fellow history lover.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

A glowing, impossibly narrow point inscribes itself firmly on San Francisco’s skyline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2021

A hundred frowny faces can’t console the grieving widow like a single piece of stationery on which a friend inscribes her sympathy.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2019

There is no frost upon the windows of Marco’s flat, so he inscribes lines of symbols in the shape of a letter A with ink, pressing his darkened fingers against the panes.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

She said she inscribed it with, “Turn this book back into a tree.”

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

“KD1” is inscribed on the lavender band around its leg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The man was not instantly recognisable, but gold medals and gilded certificates piled nearby were inscribed with the name Hussam Luka.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

At the heart of the new system are rechargeable smart bricks and microprocessors that can read digital tags inscribed inside other Smart Play pieces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

I inscribed it: You make me feel gold, flowing too.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

"They're inscribing something about their cosmology, their belief systems, into the earth itself in a very dramatic way."

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

The diagnostic definition has changed dramatically in that time, inscribing children with a broad range of abilities, needs and behaviors within a single term: autism spectrum disorder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

Choosing a message is important, but so is inscribing it in the asphalt.

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2025

So they decided to sublimate the chaos of the invasion, inscribing their new fears and hopes on pre-existing works by 17 artists.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

He lobbied her for several days, even inscribing a copy of his book, Infections and Inequalities, “For Peggy McAvoy with a big hug of solidarity and with high hopes for your help in Haiti.”

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