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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
engrave .
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Examples
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Bullets become unstable when they travel through the "transonic" stage (where the bullet goes from being supersonic to subsonic) the reason for this as best as I understand is due to the change in the way the air flows over the grooves in the bullet that the rifling engraves in its surface.
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I found out that the man that owns Trijicon sight company is a Christian and engraves scripture on his equipment like the ACOG.
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Reuters Above, a machine engraves information on an ingot of 99.99% pure gold at the Krastsvetmet nonferrous metals plant in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Upbeat Economic Data Curtails Gold Futures Tatyana Shumsky 2011
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Meanwhile, a countdown to the end of the universe has begun, a suicidal madman engraves a mandala on the floor of an emptied swimming pool, a sleep-deprived astronomer cruises the dunes in a white Packard saloon, a raven-haired temptress named Coma plays the men off against each other.
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The commentator Sefat Emet writes that upon each of our hearts God engraves the word "Life."
Rabbi Will Berkovitz: God, Life And The Spiritual Practice Of Surrendering 'Complete Control' Rabbi Will Berkovitz 2011
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Bullets become unstable when they travel through the "transonic" stage (where the bullet goes from being supersonic to subsonic) the reason for this as best as I understand is due to the change in the way the air flows over the grooves in the bullet that the rifling engraves in its surface.
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The commentator Sefat Emet writes that upon each of our hearts God engraves the word "Life."
Rabbi Will Berkovitz: God, Life And The Spiritual Practice Of Surrendering 'Complete Control' Rabbi Will Berkovitz 2011
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Now and again in a lifetime a friend introduces you to a writer and you discover a soul-book, a work that engraves itself on your heart: one you read over and over, falling in love with it more deeply each time.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Now and again in a lifetime a friend introduces you to a writer and you discover a soul-book, a work that engraves itself on your heart: one you read over and over, falling in love with it more deeply each time.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Blake engraves him as a naked Adamic figure sprawled atop a moldering skeleton, looking confidently into clearing sky and singing a hymn to human liberation:
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