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graven

verb

variants or graved

past participle 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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Gorman’s name is etched with the ’06 Carolina champs, but not the 2026 group, as owner Tom Dundon chose to include family members and left some staffers unengraved.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
The sculpture depicts a female figure, her cloak billowing out in the shape of a seed around her and etched with more than 300 global symbols of peace, holding olive branches and surrounded by six children, each representing a continent.

— Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026

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Speedy receiver Mason Tipton carved out a path for himself after signing with the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent in 2024 and enters his third NFL season recovering from offseason tibia surgery.

— Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Water movement has carved patterns into the tidal flats, creating a transition from warm golden tones to cool teal waters.

— Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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Vuitton’s Pharrell Williams, meanwhile, sent out models sporting dangling silver bands daintily engraved with the brand’s LV monogram.

— Max Berlinger, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2026
After the hearing, Khalil and his lawyers posed for photos in front of the National Constitution Center, where all forty-five words of the First Amendment were engraved on a fifty-ton slab of marble, then walked to a ramen bar for lunch.

— Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

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Such Chinese characters were inscribed or stamped on most of the hundreds of thousands of works made during the Chinese monarch’s rule in the 18th century.

— Stephy Chung, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Caitlin Clark has come closest to date, with two card sales over $500,000 last year, including a high of $660,000 for her 2024 Panini Flawless WNBA Logowoman autographed and inscribed one-of-one card.

— Larry Holder, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

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