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  • present participle of etch.
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etching

[ech-ing] / ˈɛtʃ ɪŋ /


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The team used an acid etching technique that requires only very small amounts of material to recover molecular information from six Homo erectus teeth while leaving the shape of the fossils intact.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Read: There have been updates over time, but the original glass etching featuring a mythical unicorn remains on a window in the study.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Coast and Geodetic Survey—represented here by topographical views of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands in California—Whistler learned the art of etching, which would prove essential to his creative process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

The declines followed losses by major US semiconductor stocks, after a report said a company was making specialised ultraviolet etching machines to boost China's chip industry.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

And behind the film of frost etching the glass I saw two brashly painted plaster images of Mary and Jesus surrounded by dream books, love powders, God-Is-Love signs, money-drawing oil and plastic dice.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

He did etchings, lithographs, even stained glass windows - equally at home working with the grandeur of opera design and the intimacy of pen and ink.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

The etchings were all created using Blake's own "illuminated printing" technique.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

There’s a stunning group of watercolors, seemingly breathed onto the paper, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, fragile etchings by Whistler and dazzling, light-struck waterside scenes by Sargent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025

The Wall Street Journal published an editor’s note walking back its reporting, noting that Cox’s description of the etchings included no references to the transgender community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

My paper might as well have been covered in the etchings of an alien language, written left-handed while standing on my head.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge




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