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Recent Examples of indents
Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 Jan. 2026
Celebrity nail artist Queenie Nguyen gives these bright copper nails indents and grooves for a unique way to dress them up.
—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2025
Noun
An iridescent bronze defines the upper for the All-Star edition, while its indents are shaped like stars.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 Jan. 2026
Celebrity nail artist Queenie Nguyen gives these bright copper nails indents and grooves for a unique way to dress them up.
—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indents
Noun
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Nvidia is the dominant seller of accelerator chips, processors designed to handle the huge amounts of data needed to create artificial intelligence models.—
Bloomberg Wire,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026
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The results for the November-January period blew past the analyst projections that shape investors’ perceptions, as has been the case since Nvidia’s high-end chips emerged as AI’s best building blocks three years ago.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The three prisoners were dragged to the wall and made to kneel, their backs to the crowd, their heads fitted into the indentations.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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Taking new measurements, the researchers saw that as fluid gushed between cells, creating indentations in their cell membranes, bubbles mostly bulged into weaker cells.—
Clare Watson,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Feb. 2026
Verb
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After centuries of use, the board bore grooves and marks left by real human hands moving real pieces across its surface.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
19 Feb. 2026
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Bar Tab Dan Stahl grooves to a cover band in melting-pot midtown.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Indents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indents. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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