insert
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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
The words are randomly chosen at the last minute for Moynihan to insert within the prepared scripts, one of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
They are currently trying to insert an amendment into the Railways Bill.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Rescuers were able to insert tubes to provide water, hydration fluids, protein shakes and medicine to Gil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
An ordinary, straightforward statement like I was taller becomes quite another proposition when we insert one little word: If I were taller.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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The plates could have been used as inserts in a bulletproof vest, but Alvarez was not found to have a vest, according to court documents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
Pharrell’s ad-libs and inserts interrupting the groove at perfect intervals to wake up the dancefloor.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Thankfully, a Bean Heaven employee with long blond dreadlocks inserts himself into our awkward little tableau with a big plate of scones, jam, and thick cream.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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The researchers inserted a gene for a receptor that recognizes NY-ESO-1, a protein found in many solid tumors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
He underwent surgery in September to have "super elastic" springs inserted, which gradually reshaped his skull before being removed.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Nepali army inserted a pipe into one of the tunnels at the Trishuli 3A hydroelectric site late on Saturday and started sending air through it, Minister Sudan Gurung said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Weber Pierson told the Times Monday that the amendments intended to help Midway Rising “haven’t crossed” the desk, meaning that the language hasn’t been inserted into Senate Bill 344.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Recognizing that the architects’ delays had put everything behind schedule, he inserted into the construction contracts clauses that made him a “czar,” as the Chicago Tribune put it.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
Researchers hope it could reduce the number of patients needing urgent, more invasive procedures, called cystoscopies, which involve inserting a small camera up the urethra and into the bladder.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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
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
Reb Saunders had stopped inserting deliberate errors into his Shabbat evening talks the week we had entered college, but the memory of it still rankled.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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