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imbed

[im-bed] / ɪmˈbɛd /






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Then — and I’m not sure how you’ll do this — you must imbed belief, building upon the jilted relationships and smoldering ashes and shards of broken glass DeBoer left behind.

From Seattle Times Jan. 13, 2024

While Trudeau may be the immediate benefactor, it also gives the Conservatives more time to imbed a new leader after their convention in September.

From Reuters Mar. 25, 2022

He says circle hooks, which are bent farther toward the hook’s shaft, are likelier to imbed in the mouth and easier to remove before releasing the fish.

From Washington Times Jul. 26, 2016

As interactions with machines increase in our daily life, we will need to learn to imbed them with values that are aligned with ours.

From Slate Apr. 28, 2016

Two broad tongues, for attachment to a belt, are inserted in the rear; and the reverse is filled with lead to imbed the fasteners.

From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by J. Duncan Campbell

“Expect an imbedded risk premium until there is more concrete news about the two sides meeting.”

From Barron's Oct. 15, 2025

Heaters can be imbedded in a patio wall or freestanding.

From Seattle Times Mar. 22, 2022

“We have personnel imbedded to help and monitor.”

From The Verge Mar. 3, 2022

The experiment, which started in June, imbedded a “triage pod,” of paramedics, public health clinicians and dispatchers to review the best response to non-emergency 911 calls.

From Washington Times Jul. 29, 2021

It was some form of chalky granite, or a sandstone, but imbedded in it were large pieces of a darker stone, a harder and darker stone.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

Earwigs are horrid insects to get into a garden; they often come in with a load of manure, simply swarms of them imbedding themselves in such places.

From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle

The imbedding of a raw Northern native in this lap of repose and in this transfiguring matrimonial alliance is the grand problem of the poem.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 by Various

By hypothesis this rigid, incompressible body pervades all space, imbedding every particle of tangible matter; yet it seems not to retard the movements of this matter in the slightest degree.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams

But my efforts to impress Lancey’s mind had the satisfactory effect of imbedding minute points of the language deeply in my own memory.

From In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Its distance from the tide line, its position, and its deep imbedding of sand, showed that it was of ancient origin.

From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte




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