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imbed

[im-bed] / ɪmˈbɛd /






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Then — and I’m not sure how you’ll do this — you must imbed belief, building upon the jilted relationships and smoldering ashes and shards of broken glass DeBoer left behind.

From Seattle Times Jan. 13, 2024

While Trudeau may be the immediate benefactor, it also gives the Conservatives more time to imbed a new leader after their convention in September.

From Reuters Mar. 25, 2022

He says circle hooks, which are bent farther toward the hook’s shaft, are likelier to imbed in the mouth and easier to remove before releasing the fish.

From Washington Times Jul. 26, 2016

As interactions with machines increase in our daily life, we will need to learn to imbed them with values that are aligned with ours.

From Slate Apr. 28, 2016

Floating trees from the upper courses, arrested by this obstruction, would imbed themselves in the mass, until, by continual accretions, it should become what it now is, an impassable and almost irremovable barrier to navigation.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.

“Expect an imbedded risk premium until there is more concrete news about the two sides meeting.”

From Barron's Oct. 15, 2025

“We have personnel imbedded to help and monitor.”

From The Verge Mar. 3, 2022

The experiment, which started in June, imbedded a “triage pod,” of paramedics, public health clinicians and dispatchers to review the best response to non-emergency 911 calls.

From Washington Times Jul. 29, 2021

Stair lights: Lights imbedded in a deck’s stair trim are handy if you have a dark stairway, and are generally easy to install.

From Seattle Times Mar. 25, 2021

Sticking out like evil litde pins on a rounded cushion of raw skin were several quills, deeply imbedded.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

In late-December, as I have stated, I place the understock in benches using 3-1/2 to 4 inch pots, wetting them thoroughly after imbedding them in peat moss.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association

By hypothesis this rigid, incompressible body pervades all space, imbedding every particle of tangible matter; yet it seems not to retard the movements of this matter in the slightest degree.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith

Moses, recognizing the influence of the crowd even when in the wrong, felt the necessity of imbedding in the Jewish code this declaration: "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil."

From Unfettered A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)

Figure 119 shows a method Page 216 of imbedding the thermo-couple in the floor of a furnace so as to require no space in the heating chamber.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)

Layers of concrete are laid over the roof rods to a thickness of from eighteen to thirty inches, and carried two inches below the rods, imbedding them.

From The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment by Anonymous




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