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imprint

[im-print, im-print] / ˈɪm prɪnt, ɪmˈprɪnt /




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In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Pettigrew - from King's College London - said there were all sorts of connections between the monarchy and slavery, not just this "brutal imprint".

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Meg Keene Books, a fiction imprint of Wicked Son press, launched in July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The dispute arises from one of President Donald Trump’s more characteristically grand building projects, a new White House ballroom that has become part of his broader effort to leave a physical imprint on Washington.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

"This work points to a completely different way of testing their possible role in cosmic history. Their descendants could leave a gravitational-wave imprint that persists all the way to the present-day Universe."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

The raked sand had never received the imprint of such strides toward danger.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

High Line, the largest and most high-profile of these new efforts, will initially consist of two imprints, Odessa Editions and Antidote Books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

In one study, currently under peer review, we found that clumps of imprints behave just like dark matter, an unknown substance that makes up most of the matter in the universe.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026

"There are so many imprints in my experience of going to the movie theatre as a kid and growing up going to the movies," he said.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

Collectively, those imprints have produced more than 50 New York Times bestsellers.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2026

My sketchbook is a collection of imprints from my soul.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

The dogs are trained using toys imprinted with a human's smell, Ivory explains.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

The room’s furniture remains eerily static, while their bodies’ movements leave traces imprinted around the frame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

On the call, he wore a hat with a word imprinted on its front: Love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

But skating over the Olympic rings imprinted on the Milan ice rink has "felt different than any other competition," he said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

I’m not imprinted with a schedule, so I wander around aimlessly until Prim’s excused from her hospital duties to take me to our family’s latest compartment.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Prof William Pettigrew, who led the Register of British Slave Traders research, described the imprinting as a "dramatic and harrowing" symbol of the monarchy's relationship to slavery.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Monica may spend time with David and choose whether she’d like to activate his imprinting feature, triggering a familial love that looks and feels as real as her biological son’s — at least to David.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

In genomic imprinting, an allele can be chemically marked through a process called methylation and effectively switched off.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

If there’s another cub in California, the agency may try to pair them up to keep them from imprinting on people, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

Herds of puffy cumulus raced beneath the sun, imprinting the landscape with a shifting matrix of shadow and blinding light.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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