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I recently was walking along 41st Street near the New York Public Library in Manhattan, where the sidewalks are inset with bronze plaques highlighting the power of words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
There is also a scaled-down replica of the Crown Jewels inset with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 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
Grandma yelled through the door as she peeked through the covered glass inset.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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
Uzikee Nelson’s talismanic “Headhunter,” a person-size sculpture of black metal with red-glass insets, is clearly modern yet has primeval force.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
Two gray ceramic hoops by Manal Kara, with photo-printed cotton insets, are weirdly charming, while Walter Price’s drawing “Eye Witness” is transfixing but inconclusive.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2021
Create an Instagram moment with this pendant earring in antiqued gold with pearl-like insets.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2018
The teachers were beginning to despair of producing order in this case, when the child began to take an interest in the solid insets and in one of the frames.
From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
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
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
