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as in to etch
to produce a vivid impression of
a puzzling detail that had been infixed in the detective's mind for over a decade
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as in to plant
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set
a football coach celebrated for infixing in his players an all-consuming will to win
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His work was later etched into metal plates and used to mass-produce publicity prints.
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Evidence of this residue can be seen as water spots or etching glass surfaces, clean laundry that feels stiff and scratchy, and toilet bowl rings that trap bacteria.
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Under the Biden administration, federal taxpayers paid farmers billions of dollars to stop planting crops, but that's considered a short-term solution too expensive to maintain indefinitely.
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Other summer camps soon planted flags of their own.
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With her fingers, Guadalupe Espinoza lightly traced the lettering engraved on a slanted monument wedged alongside the courtyard at the LA Plaza de Culturas y Artes.
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Vertical grooves in the glass trace the lines of agave fields outside Guadalajara, while the Roman numeral III engraved into the bottle and cap honors the third generation now shaping the González story.
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These stunning, resilient shrub roses are bred to thrive in heat and humidity, resisting related diseases.
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When the alpha is dethroned, his replacement typically does in his predecessor’s cubs so that the females in the pride will breed again.
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With the new study, scientists have also shown that an embryo can tolerate editing and still develop to the point whereby it could be implanted into a uterus.
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Both of these techniques involve extracting individual grafts from the donor area, but how it’s implanted is what makes a difference here.
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With Claude Tag, Anthropic hopes to ease some of these burdens by simplifying the product and embedding it where companies already operate day-to-day.
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Now, risk is embedded in day-to-day operations.
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“Infix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infix. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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