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inscribe

[in-skrahyb] / ɪnˈskraɪb /


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Depending on the magnitude of the game, and of the challenge, Burruss would name the cast after a mountain peak, and use a Sharpie to inscribe the cast accordingly.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2025

Multibeam has already demonstrated the capability to inscribe 8-inch wafers.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 3, 2025

If you get sued, stress the expressive elements of your business, from your choice of furnishings, colors and fabrics to marketing, including the fanciful words you inscribe on the bibles in each room.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2023

They reveal the design, structure and scale of the marks humans inscribe on the earth, the extraordinary vistas not visible from ground level.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2023

The Runes were magical inscriptions, immensely powerful for him who could inscribe them on anything—wood, metal, stone.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

A high-powered laser pulse then inscribes these minuscule voxels into square glass plates that are roughly the size of a CD.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

For a reader self-identified as a “young budding historian obsessed with history,” Caro inscribes, “To a fellow history lover.”

From Seattle Times Dec. 18, 2023

At the end, Joe Kelly comes out wearing a white T-shirt, which his wife quickly inscribes with “Kelly 99” in marker on the back, revealing the fourth jersey number of his 13-year career.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2023

A hundred frowny faces can’t console the grieving widow like a single piece of stationery on which a friend inscribes her sympathy.

From Washington Post Feb. 12, 2019

There is no frost upon the windows of Marco’s flat, so he inscribes lines of symbols in the shape of a letter A with ink, pressing his darkened fingers against the panes.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Priests used this odd object, divided into zones inscribed with the name of a god, as a teaching tool: In a sacrificed animal, departures from the liver’s usual features were viewed as messages from deities.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Starmer, speaking to British reporters on his flight home, said the pistols were inscribed with the name of each leader and accompanied by a box of ammunition.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

"It's a strange mixture of being glad and happy and sad at the same time," John said, as he touched the stone where his father's name is now inscribed.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

Words to be inscribed alongside those of FDR and Churchill, no doubt.

From Salon May 24, 2026

At night a tremendous mass meeting was held in the Auditorium, where a bronze tablet which had been inscribed to her memory was unveiled.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

"They're inscribing something about their cosmology, their belief systems, into the earth itself in a very dramatic way."

From BBC Nov. 27, 2025

Choosing a message is important, but so is inscribing it in the asphalt.

From Slate Sep. 3, 2025

They left signed jerseys in their teammates’ lockers like classmates inscribing yearbooks after the school year, except the end came much more suddenly than any planned graduation.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 13, 2025

She called for inscribing these rights into the French Constitution and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

From Seattle Times Jul. 9, 2022

She tries to think the way she imagines Marco might have as he wrote it, picturing him inscribing each page, rendering the delicate ink branches of the tree that winds throughout the book.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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