inset
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It also runs an inset on the train derailment near Lewes as part of its coverage of what it calls "Heatwave devastation."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
They act as deep coffers for the inset skylights, recalling Kahn’s Yale museum, while their V-shaped section gives them a central channel in which the mechanical systems are concealed, performing their duties unseen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
The infamous Bronco chase caused one television station to rearrange coverage of an NBA Finals game, featuring the chase on the main screen and the game as an inset.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Indicating the origin of an inset from an image is minimal; providing intensity scales for grayscale, color, and pseudocolor is recommended; and annotating image details such as pixel size and exposure time are ideal.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
Mrs. Fermin shows me a picture frame inset with Eduardo’s ninth-grade report card.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Eva Slater’s 1954 “Galaxy” insets a syncopated network of painted forms within a wooden panel, merging optical motion with material stasis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
“Reflecting Wave” swirls on the wall as if about to break, while the less naturalistic “Reflecting Pool” insets small mirrors into a picture whose basic diamond shape is softened by oceanic tendrils.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022
Almost inevitably there are marble floors with truffle insets, acres of Persian carpets, hard-backed settees upholstered in maroon leather, silk-shaded ginger-jar table lamps casting light on phalaenopsis orchids planted in generic tole jardinières.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
Create an Instagram moment with this pendant earring in antiqued gold with pearl-like insets.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2018
Each wore a belt with moderately large metal insets placed on either side of its fastening.
From Long Ago, Far Away by Murray Leinster
A gale nearly swamped them in rounding Cape Alexander, south of which they were forced to shore by the insetting ice-pack.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
This system of insetting has the grave inconvenience that the advertiser finds himself compelled to print as many insets as the publisher asserts that he can use.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
First builded into the etheric form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials.
From Death—and After? by Annie Wood Besant
