as in etching
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as in inscribing
to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surface
engraved the birth and death dates on the tombstone
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as in imprinting
to produce a vivid impression of
a scar that forever engraved the killer's face in the witness's mind
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Recent Examples of engraving
Bruce Martin, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Schey recommended embellishing any Giuliani watch with a cheeky engraving referencing its provenance.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
The watch includes a closed caseback with an engraving of the Colorado mountains and Arizona desert flora.
—Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2024
Excavators also discovered some of the temple's interior walls and engravings of Min and Repyt, a lion goddess who was one of his wives.
—Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
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During his 35-year career in the engraving industry, Smith has worked on many projects, primarily antiques, and silver jewelry.
—Bruce Martin, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Schey recommended embellishing any Giuliani watch with a cheeky engraving referencing its provenance.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
The watch includes a closed caseback with an engraving of the Colorado mountains and Arizona desert flora.
—Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2024
Excavators also discovered some of the temple's interior walls and engravings of Min and Repyt, a lion goddess who was one of his wives.
—Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
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Inside the wet-chemistry module, for example, the wafer would undergo cleaning, development of the photoresist and its removal, and etching, among other procedures.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2024
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Prince Albert, also German, sent trees to schools and army forts around the holiday season, but the tree trend took off with the help of an 1848 etching which made their tradition public knowledge.Marina Watts, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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Writers didn’t just take down their portraits of Hemingway and put up portraits of Borges, as a French critic said Calvino had done.Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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In the other direction, Elisabeth’s portrait also hovers over them.Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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The 118th Congress set the record for having the most LGBTQ representation in U.S. history, with 13 legislators openly identifying as gay, lesbian or bisexual.Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
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The parent of athlete representation businesses and the majority owner of TKO is going private in early 2025, in a deal led by Silver Lake with participation of Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and billionaire Michael Dell.Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 2 Jan. 2025
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In preliminary tests, the model excels at three critical tasks: segmentation (dividing images into distinct anatomical parts), classification (categorizing images based on medical conditions), and visual localization (precisely identifying specific features like fractures or tumors).Bernard Marr, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Footage and images from the scene match the scene shown in the Facebook video, showing the same small white plane in the same position on the side of the highway.Katie Smith, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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There have been few depictions of Dracula as a true weirdo — a guy who lurks in the corner and makes unsolicited comments about the beauty of Harker’s wife’s neck — but Schreck’s portrayal of Dracula as a wealthy foreign invader is essential to the cinematic history of the count.Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
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The obfuscation feels like the point, an attempt to make the Count seem truly arcane and unsettling again after a century of filmic depictions.David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Engraving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engraving. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
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