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imprint

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




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"I see Leo as a sort of continuation...of the imprint that Francis left on the Vatican and the church," said Lozano.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Finalist Phyllis Thibodeaux Beach, whose construction-worker father helped build several Boston landmarks, sees it as a way to leave her own imprint on the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

One of the most unexpected findings was that exposure to thick fluid appeared to leave a lasting imprint on glioblastoma cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

But a conspicuous red-brick clock tower bears the imprint of the school's British heritage.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Your eyas is very hungry. I don’t want to feed her. She will imprint on me and think she’s a person. Then she will never mate with her kind.”

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Discovery, roping in a multibillion-dollar corpus of film-and-TV studios, streaming services, newsrooms, movie theaters, and book imprints under the aegis of one man, nepo baby David Ellison.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 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

But wait: Four or five elephants had been through when the soil was soft enough to take deep imprints.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Her creations include recycled car tires—symbols of the capital’s traffic-clogged modern life—with sides and treads imprinted with gilded Aztec symbols, including the flying feathered serpent-god Quetzalcoatl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

"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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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

The jewels that studded the leather collar were imprinted whitely in her palms.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

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

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

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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