indenting

verb

present participle of indent
as in notching

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  1. carving
  2. grooving
  3. sculpting
  4. chiseling
  5. tracing
Verb
  • When carving a piece of cocobolo rosewood, a Wounaan artist features the grain.
    — Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The rocket’s upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, carving out a crater and sending up a plume of dust and rubble that scientists — and skygazers — are eager to observe.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of carving
Verb
  • Speirs began moving and grooving between innings, choreographing dances for each player’s walk-up song.
    — Abigail Dollins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2026
  • One of the video's most memorable sequences features Madonna grooving to the dance-pop track while riding a gondola.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of grooving
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  • Ahead, a look at the best face sculpting tools that are actually worth the investment.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 31 July 2026
  • That sculpting magic has led many shoppers to deem these their most flattering jeans.
    — Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 28 July 2026
Definition of sculpting
Verb
  • The religious men took up residence among the locals—people who spent their days tending cows and sheep, churning butter, weeding onions and turnips, scouring the forests for mushrooms, and chiseling sculptures from the local limestone.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • Moyes knows this squad well, both its strengths and weaknesses, and has become adept at chiselling out points on his travels.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of chiseling
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  • The next year, health authorities linked a cyclospora outbreak in part to Taylor Farms, tracing it back to the same central Mexico facility implicated in this year’s outbreak.
    — Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
  • These digital assets and the underlying technology behind them are forcing investigators and financial institutions to become more sophisticated in tracing this illicit activity.
    — Mitchell Silber, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of tracing
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