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inset

[in-set, in-set] / ˈɪnˌsɛt, ɪnˈsɛt /
VERB
inlay
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I recently was walking along 41st Street near the New York Public Library in Manhattan, where the sidewalks are inset with bronze plaques highlighting the power of words.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Kaliyah was reported missing on 31 March after playing near Barge House Causeway in Woolwich during a school inset day.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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

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

I had seen her once, at, the end of the L-shaped corridor, standing in front of an open door with bars on the square, inset windows.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

“Reflecting Wave” swirls on the wall as if about to break, while the less naturalistic “Reflecting Pool” insets small mirrors into a picture whose basic diamond shape is softened by oceanic tendrils.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022

Almost inevitably there are marble floors with truffle insets, acres of Persian carpets, hard-backed settees upholstered in maroon leather, silk-shaded ginger-jar table lamps casting light on phalaenopsis orchids planted in generic tole jardinières.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020

Create an Instagram moment with this pendant earring in antiqued gold with pearl-like insets.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2018

In each of these is inserted a blue geometrical figure similar to the geometrical insets and provided with a small button for a handle.

From Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori

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 Adolphus W. Greely

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

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 Annie Wood Besant


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