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




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Grant emphasized that all three coaches could easily walk away because of the imprint they left and the resume they built.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

“We are really seeing in market prices the imprint of the new chair,” said former Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota, now a professor of economics at the University of Rochester.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

Building on earlier work showing that a first pregnancy reshapes the brain, the researchers found that each pregnancy leaves its own unique imprint on the maternal brain.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

They are raising concerns that, stacked together, they leave a more lasting imprint on how households and businesses set wages and prices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Ranofer wandered over and inspected it, just in case, and found the usual fresh wad of clay covering the latch, with the imprint of Gebu’s ring pressed into it.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

Leading imprints include Scribner, Atria Books and its namesake flagship.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 9, 2026

The wind gusted across the tire tracks and imprints of human shoulders and hands; and there was nothing left but broken bottles and a black mark on the ground where the fire had been.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

"The new normal?" poses the Guardian on its front page, imprinted over a heat map graphic of Western Europe and the UK.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

It's not just horses helping Lloyd, but a Welsh dragon too, imprinted on her helmet.

From BBC May 21, 2026

Obviously, that’s a moment that will forever be imprinted on my being and in my memory.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 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

One of these is the Republic's flag, imprinted faintly against the metal.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

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

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

Howe immediately set about imprinting his methods at Newcastle.

From BBC Mar. 16, 2025

"In principle, imprinting can be positive, negative or neutral. In this case, we see strong imprinting that is positive, because it's coupled to the development of cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies with remarkable breadth of activity."

From Science Daily May 17, 2024

Nhamo didn’t know what imprinting was and she didn’t bother her head about it.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer




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