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as in trails
a mark or series of marks left on a surface by something that has passed along it
found an imprint on the road where something apparently had been dragged
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as in impressions
a perceptible trace left by pressure
an imprint of a dinosaur's foot embedded in the limestone
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as in engraves
to produce a vivid impression of
that early lesson on the value of honesty permanently imprinted itself on my mind
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Recent Examples of imprints
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
24 June 2026
The Davis era at Sony moved into eclipse in October 2011, when new chairman-CEO Doug Morris, folded the Arista and J imprints and assigned their artists to flagship label RCA Records.
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Chris Morris,
Variety,
22 June 2026
When a mysterious egg hatches during a mission and the baby imprints on Ken, he's thrust into the role of parenting a newborn Gigantron.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
But a reminder that contending teams are years and years in the making and more often than not have several different imprints on them.
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Pierre Lebrun,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
In the tale, an old, giant rhea ran so powerfully its steps left imprints in the sky, creating the constellation Choiols — known in the West as the Southern Cross.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
The others all had much more time to put their imprints on the team.
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ABC News,
27 May 2026
The likes of Paramount have launched book imprints for original productions and development projects to better manage the process, but broadly screen-to-books can be considered an underdeveloped space.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
19 May 2026
And in preparation for a time when such imprints could become even more easily logged in gravitational wave data, this team developed a method that predicts just what shape a gravitational wave should take when moving through dark matter, rather than empty space.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 May 2026
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
One paddle literally imprints a word onto your skin.
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Alysia Reiner,
Flow Space,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
This mattress is also durable—Dragan noticed that any body imprints pop back quickly, and is hopeful this will hold up for some time.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
24 June 2026
The Davis era at Sony moved into eclipse in October 2011, when new chairman-CEO Doug Morris, folded the Arista and J imprints and assigned their artists to flagship label RCA Records.
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Chris Morris,
Variety,
22 June 2026
When a mysterious egg hatches during a mission and the baby imprints on Ken, he's thrust into the role of parenting a newborn Gigantron.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
But a reminder that contending teams are years and years in the making and more often than not have several different imprints on them.
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Pierre Lebrun,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
In the tale, an old, giant rhea ran so powerfully its steps left imprints in the sky, creating the constellation Choiols — known in the West as the Southern Cross.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
The others all had much more time to put their imprints on the team.
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ABC News,
27 May 2026
The likes of Paramount have launched book imprints for original productions and development projects to better manage the process, but broadly screen-to-books can be considered an underdeveloped space.
—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
19 May 2026
And in preparation for a time when such imprints could become even more easily logged in gravitational wave data, this team developed a method that predicts just what shape a gravitational wave should take when moving through dark matter, rather than empty space.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 May 2026
Verb
And the custardy texture somehow imprints a more pronounced, wholly pleasant sourness.
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Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
One paddle literally imprints a word onto your skin.
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Alysia Reiner,
Flow Space,
13 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imprints
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The deaths occurred during two separate incidents on June 12 and June 16 along trails in the park’s inner canyon, the park said in a news release.
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While portions of the old WB&A are now light rail, much of its route has been made into bike trails in Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties.
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The Sun, planet of self-expression, enters your sign, energizing your 1st House of Identity with vitality that boosts your confidence and creates a glow in first impressions.
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This is where customers formed their impressions.
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Malcolm Arnold’s 2,000-square-foot business, Apple Core Electronics, on Flushing Avenue in Bushwick makes exterior intercom panels, sets their wiring, punches buttons and engraves addresses.
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The company also engraves the names of the two teams, the final score, the location of the game and its date on the trophy base.
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The marks of two canoes showed in the sand, and footprints of barefoot children proclaimed we’d been visited by Cree neighbors.
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As a result of this need for speed, Apollo did not build anything permanent on the moon, leaving behind only flags, footprints and defunct spacecraft.
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Choose from a variety of fun prints.
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In Belgium & Luxembourg, Backrooms grossed $92k across 103 prints, which is the best opening day for a horror film this year and the fourth best for a horror film since 2022.
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Kirby beautifully etches these notions into Miss Black America.
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Trade-secret doctrine, computer-fraud rules and contract terms all touch the issue, but none were written with tens of millions of API calls and synthetic reasoning traces in mind.
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Her collection preserves not only the traces of a public life, but evidence of a performer who refused to separate politics from performance and performance from ephemerality.
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Rigorous, exhaustive testing of all tracks, signaling systems, and vehicles is the standard industry practice for major airport transit infrastructure to guarantee seamless long-term system integration.
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Others are built for ages 7 to 12, and several offer teen tracks that lean closer to a culinary school experience.
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“Imprints.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imprints. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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