Thesaurus results for GRAVED

graved

verb

past tense of grave

as in etched

to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surface the doomed climber graved his initials into the rock face

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Maurice Jones-Drew will forever be etched into the memories of the Bruin faithful.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
The Nazca Lines, enormous drawings and ⁠geometric figures etched into desert plains in the south of the country, are one of Peru’s main tourist destinations, attracting approximately 100,000 annual visitors.

— Joe Kottke, NBC news, 2 Aug. 2026

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At the end of the ceremony, Walter presented Trump with a World Series ring engraved with the president’s name.

— Adam Kilgore, New York Times, 24 July 2026
It is also engraved with that all-important serial number, which marks the moment when the dual-balance timepiece first became commercially available.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 July 2026

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But, outside of clothing items and a set of denture plates inscribed with a partially illegible set of numbers, there was too little evidence recovered from the scene to generate leads in the case.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 29 July 2026
Sites in South Sudan, Lebanon, and the State of Palestine made the list, along with properties in Ukraine, Suriname, and, again, Lebanon, that were already inscribed on the World Heritage List and are now on the List of World Heritage in Danger.

— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2026

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The planet appears to have carved a visible gap inside the protoplanetary disk, giving astronomers one of the clearest views yet of planetary formation in progress.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026
Each stone’s etching is intricately carved on the reverse side.

— Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2026

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