inlaid

Definition of inlaidnext
past tense of inlay

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Verb
  • Will inset cabinets increase the value of your home?
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The gourmet kitchen has inset cabinetry, beam ceilings, an expansive island, a professional six-burner dual-oven range, dual dishwashers and a custom pizza oven.
    Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Instead of modifying one gene at a time, researchers began exploring whether entire genomes could be built and inserted into cells.
    André O. Hudson, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The company’s bid fell apart last year, however, after a last-minute item was inserted into the state budget transferring the station’s operating permit to the Department of Administrative Services — thus keeping it out of private hands.
    John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Retirement advocates see any cap or cut in Social Security benefits as a slippery slope.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • To temper those cuts in California, other groups proposed a new tax on billionaires that appears poised to qualify for the November ballot.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • After the prayers, the vet techs went behind the whale and injected it with a long syringe.
    Robin Romm, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • Embalming, the process of slowing down a body’s decomposition, involves known carcinogens like formaldehyde that get injected into veins to preserve the body for viewing and services.
    Dorany Pineda, Fortune, 2 May 2026
Verb
  • Part of Ayers’s respect in the hip-hop community is derived from his willingness to work with the artists who’ve sampled and interpolated him.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The song has been sampled or interpolated over 150 times, according to Whosampled.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Chewy coconut, crunchy cashew crumbs, lots of caramel goo interspersed with chocolate goo.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Speaking of spikes, over at the megalith design exhibition Alcova, CJ Aslan – founder of fashion brand ASLAN WORLD – presents a chair and ottoman covered in a sea of sharp stainless steel ones, interspersed playfully with gemstones.
    Francesca Perry, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • For most of Mira’s life, Patrick worked in product management at a large tech company.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • That worked in Lake Waco in Texas, for example, and along a rocky reef at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • Hudson interrupted Belichick's CBS interview when interviewer Tony Dokoupil asked how the two met, and, CBS said, interjected several other times throughout.
    Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Roseman interjected with an important part when evaluating prospects.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Inlaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inlaid. Accessed 7 May. 2026.

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