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 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
There is also a scaled-down replica of the Crown Jewels inset with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 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
Like me, many of them wore family jewelry made of silver, inset with turquoise and agate and jet.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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
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
Two gray ceramic hoops by Manal Kara, with photo-printed cotton insets, are weirdly charming, while Walter Price’s drawing “Eye Witness” is transfixing but inconclusive.
From New York Times ● Feb. 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
When, on the other hand, the insets are exhibited before his eyes, he feels the desire to draw them all one after the other, and the number of exercises is increased.
From Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Montessori, Maria
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.
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
