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incised

verb

Definition of incised

past tense of incise

as in etched

to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surface incised a pattern into the copper plate

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as in sliced

to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife) incised the tree with a sharp ax to get the sap flowing

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Recent Examples of incised The old temples of Tamil Nadu are a treasure-trove of forms incised on stone or magicked from brass, and lavished daily with fruit and flowers, incense and sandalwood, music and light. — Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2026 Patterns on vessels were often incised into the mold itself, as this technique allowed for fine details to be transferred from mold to object. — Teagan Wolter, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026 Little climbed into a trench and bent over a vertical stone that was incised with a web of typically Orcadian geometric patterns. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025

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Her spot at the support group, which now lights a blue candle with her name etched onto it before every meeting.

— Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 18 July 2026
As for the nil-nil draw between Curaçao and Ecuador, three days later, no doubt every sweating tackle will be etched into the consciousness of the seventy thousand spectators who packed into Kansas City Stadium.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Definition of etched

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The scramble for capacity is already spilling into the capital markets, where the risk gets sliced up and sold to investors as catastrophe bonds.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
With that knife, Bland stabbed her husband in the head and neck — and, afterward, sliced her teenage daughter in the forearm as the teen tried to get Emii from Bland, the report says.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

Definition of sliced

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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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In the second hour of Thursday’s practice Gordon committed his second fumble in two days when cornerback Chris Johnson ripped the ball out, and recovered it.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
The ferocious biting and pulling had broken the webbing and ripped the holster from my body.

— Todd Orr, Outdoor Life, 30 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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During the same period, state lawmakers have cut top personal income tax rates 210 times and slashed corporate tax rates 168 times.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 30 July 2026
Then, weeks after the conflict broke out, the country abruptly slashed its oil purchases, eventually cutting them by half compared with prewar levels.

— Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026

Definition of slashed

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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

Definition of carved

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According to the artist who made it, John Buckley, and the owner of the home pierced by the shark, Bill Heine, the work was meant as a protest against the recent bombing of Libya, nuclear power and nuclear war, among other things.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026
In his season of DWTS, Irwin opened up about navigating grief after the death of his father Steve Irwin, who died in 2006 after being pierced by a stingray barb.

— Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026

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