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Having recently moved from Bucharest to a remote village in Norway, a conservative, devoutly Christian couple and their five young children have begun to insert themselves into the fabric of their new community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
And they asked their Chinese factory to insert a hidden magnetic closure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
While these intuitions are attempting to insert women into the male-dominated picture of the Viking age, descriptions of women’s lives and their social or cultural influence tend to be limited.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Such direct relationships, he stressed, are the core asset of modern journalism, even as tech platforms continually insert themselves between news outlets and their readers and viewers through algorithm tweaks.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
To activate widget A, you insert doohickey B into slot C. Or you can delete the you, since it’s understood to be the subject.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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On Wednesday, Judge I'Ashea Myles ordered that "anything that was in the actual room needs to be preserved and maintained," including IV lines and syringes, as well as waste, such as packaging, inserts and labels.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Three letters to describe a cord that our puzzle writer always inserts the wrong way?
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
In between the book’s linked stories, Ms. Daanje inserts excerpts from those scant archives—Millicent’s letters, the poems and cryptic jottings from Eliza May’s notebooks—as well as passages from various later biographies of the Draydens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Instead of spending the money on a pricey establishing shot of the car driving on the 101, Wain inserts a brief vintage clip of a ’70s-era taxi, humming along the road.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Even the “ah” that Klotz inserts between the two halves of his sentence serves to undercut the importance of what he is saying.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The work marks the first time scientists have inserted a large stretch of DNA into a precise location in human T cells without first removing those cells from the body.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
A chest tube was inserted to drain the fluid.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
I have a friend who has, on a few occasions, sent me AI-generated raps with his name or a joke inserted as the lyrics.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Flagg card was randomly inserted in a pack of Topps 2026 Chrome Basketball Update Series and placed on the market Aug. 6.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
He did everything exactly as before, except this time, when he inserted the Crystal Key, he turned it counterclockwise instead of clockwise.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Why are the people inserting the catheter wearing white coats?
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
During a consultation with the New York plastic surgeon Dr. David Rosenberg, he suggested an alternative that involves smaller incisions and inserting a tiny camera into the body to identify precise areas to lift.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
There is even AI that will make such papers look student written by inserting a few errors or current slang terms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Spend enough years standing behind pyramids of hamburgers, posing at fry stations and inserting yourself into the iconography of American restaurant chains, and eventually the props begin to accrue meanings of their own.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
It was a tin globe of the world with a slit for inserting money.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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