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inset

[in-set, in-set] / ˈɪnˌsɛt, ɪnˈsɛt /
VERB
inlay
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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

"Today we had an inset day so I played Roblox and spoke to my cousin who lives far away," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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

Its sides—clad in weather-beaten shingles and inset with a series of large windows—slanted obliquely inward, rising toward a gambrel roof.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

There is sight, of course, with color insets of Schloss’s bright and optimistic daubings alongside work by her more dour-seeming contemporaries.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

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

Major urban centers, such as Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, have their very own maps placed in insets where the Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea would normally, realistically lie.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2020

Corresponding to every form reproduced in the plane insets there are three white cards square in shape and of exactly the same size as the wooden 51 frames of the insets.

From Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori

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 Adolphus W. Greely

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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