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indenting

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present participle of indent

as in notching

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The concept originated from a stone carving the artist saw in a Venetian church, a simple depiction of sacred oil vessels used at different stages of life.

— Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
To the consternation of some, the bill still contains curbs on what states can regulate on their own — basically carving out AI regulation as federal turf.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026

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Embodied by the O’Jays, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Lou Rawls, and others, it was grown-up and plush, but still grooving—the seedbed for the sizzle of disco, with an emphasis on Black pride.

— Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
But was Alicia suddenly having the time of her life grooving to this classic?

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 1 June 2026

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Beyond their jaw-dropping price, the Amazon Essentials Skinny Jeans share the same snug, sculpting fit as Stewart’s pair.

— Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 21 July 2026
The engineering shop teamed up with KRT Framework for the aluminum bodywork, which came together over 800 hours of painstaking shaping and sculpting by hand.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 July 2026

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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

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But Hudson said there was no way of tracing the final borrower who had accrued the debt.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
About Lowe’s windows Lowe’s, tracing its roots back to North Wilkesboro Hardware in 1929, went public in 1961 and has since grown into the second largest home improvement retailer in the world.

— Jason Rueger, USA Today, 29 July 2026

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