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Top Biden aides—especially Secretary of State Antony Blinken, CIA director William Burns, and Middle East envoy Brett McGurk—engaged in an almost constant tag-team campaign to etch just the right phrase, and plot the precise benefits and trade-offs, to lure all sides to sign a deal.

In prior publications, co-authors Richard Martel and Pierre Levesque from Montreal had shown that trace amounts of oxygen can slow the growth process and even etch the graphene away.

In a 1996 profile, the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean’s wrote of Mr. Murphy: “He has become the unlikeliest of Canadian celebrities — a quirkily untelegenic presence who has defied the canons of conventional programming wisdom to etch himself upon the country’s consciousness.”

It can’t just be Etch A Sketch-ed, erased, and rewritten on the fly.

Then, entering his log, he looked around as if to etch forever in his memory this piece of dead tree that had been his haven.