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On its back, a carved inscription reads, “This Machine Kills Fascists.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Below that, an inscription will read: “Symbols of local worship places I took my young children to. Thanking America’s freedom of religion. And hoping for a conciliation between Islam, Christianity and other religions.”
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
An inscription at the shrine of Apollo at Delphi fruitlessly warned the oracle’s visitors mêden agan, “nothing too much.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
The small piece of carved thin bone bears an inscription.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
She sees the inscription, the force of the ballpoint pen he’d used slighdy crimping the other side of the page.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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