inserting

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More than a dozen large TV monitors display close-up video, also streamed online, of election workers’ hands inserting ballots into machines.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

The treatments he provided, which included inserting metal plates, bone grafts and implants, are considered high-risk and some level of complications are to be expected.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

Control rods are a device used to control the nuclear chain reaction in the reactor core, which can be accelerated by slightly withdrawing them, or slowed down or stopped completely by inserting them deeper.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

The same institutions driving new credit deals are often the ones quietly inserting stronger protections behind the scenes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Then they started back again, for a while trying not to make an extra set of footsteps, inserting their shoes into the ones they had just made.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri