inlaid

past tense of inlay

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Oahu residents evacuate Ewa Beach, main, right and left, to the side of Kunia Road in Kapolei, Oahu, Hawaii, on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, and vehicles in Honolulu, inset, as locals and tourists evacuate the area.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
  • This will feel most immediately obvious: Netflix’s top recommendation, the homepage’s hero module, is now more prominent, with its corners rounded off in a tile instead of inset into the background.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • Cable cuts in the Red Sea briefly disrupted Microsoft’s Azure service.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, found that the very layers meant to block harmful outputs – like pornography or step-by-step weapon guides – are often the first to be cut in the name of efficiency.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Fatemian simply bunches each slice slightly, creating a ruffled, flower-like radish slice that is then inserted between the rest of the vegetables.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Royals manager Matt Quatraro inserted utilityman Nick Loftin into the game for defense.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Prosecutors argued Agüero injected potassium and insulin into the infants, provoking lethal arrhythmias, El País and the Buenos Aires Times reported.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • That firm is under investigation for a recent suspicious operation in which two family members injected $800,000, as reporter Camila Dolabjian reported.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Inlaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inlaid. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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