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engrave

[en-greyv] / ɛnˈgreɪv /


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It took three years of training before he was allowed to engrave small pieces for customers.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 9, 2025

Before, to engrave the circuits on the silicon plates used in electronic devices like mobile phones, it was necessary to use polluting chemical products.

From Science Daily Jan. 24, 2024

I also love the fact that they could have put it in a font, in something computer-generated, but they chose to engrave it in my handwriting.

From Scientific American Jul. 7, 2023

Wear Jennie Yoon’s locket as a blank oval — she also sells a heart-shaped locket — or engrave it with a signature letter.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 2, 2022

“If you help us, your name goes on the key, too. You couldn’t engrave it yourself, though. It’s bad luck. Who else at the store does engravings?”

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Nolan’s “Odyssey” engraves marvelous images onto the ancient oral poem.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Employing a nano-imprinting process that engraves the pattern like a stamp, the team achieved the rapid and inexpensive production of metalenses that are 20,000 times larger than conventional ones.

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2024

He said that many local business in the area, including his own, which engraves stone, had offered their time and resources to restore the structure.

From New York Times Jul. 6, 2022

A machine engraves information on an ingot of 99.98 percent pure palladium at the Krastsvetmet non-ferrous metals plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia March 10, 2022.

From Reuters May 15, 2022

Every reflected image engraves itself on the stuff of yourself by the sensation of attachment or repulsion which it arouses.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

Tyler's coffin was designed by her family to reflect her love of music, with a microphone and treble clef engraved on each side.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Using geometric and statistical techniques that had not previously been applied to these artifacts, the team reconstructed the directions, angles, and paths of the engraved lines.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Aung San is "engraved in people's memory" as Myanmar's independence hero, and many see his legacy being continued by his daughter, according to Myanmar specialist Moe Thuzar.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Elsewhere are splendid cabinets with mother-of-pearl inlay, gorgeous enamel accessories, plush velvet textiles and engraved iron swords.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

She could feel the lingering oil from Nehemia’s hands and smell her friend’s lotus-blossom scent on the engraved wood.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

"There is not only a process of repeating signs: there is real visuo-spatial planning, as if the authors already had an overall image of the figure in mind before engraving it."

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Each ring will include a mini World Cup trophy in its design and an engraving in the band.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

The Hockey Hall of Fame told the Associated Press it is not directly involved with the engraving.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Erbium and neodymium are also important in making lasers for industrial engraving and cutting.

From Barron's Feb. 4, 2026

He would buy the engraving of St. Clement’s Dane, take it out of its frame, and carry it home concealed under the jacket of his overalls.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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