insets 1 of 2

Definition of insetsnext
plural of inset

insets

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of inset

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for insets
Noun
  • Western counterparts often acknowledge them privately, even as public backlash from some European institutions and media figures ensued against Rubio’s candor.
    Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The Mean Green’s best football season ever wasn’t even over before the major figures from that team left, or announced their intentions to bounce ASAP; when the season did end, moments after UNT defeated San Diego State to win the New Mexico Bowl, is when the great Denton flood began.
    Mac Engel January 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Detailed this week in the journal ACS Sensors, the team describes a small device made from an array of microneedles that inserts into a dead fish (or fillets) and continuously measures hypoxanthine (HX), a key compound closely associated with spoilage.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Amid the melodrama, Trier inserts flashes of comedy.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Dustin further diagrams all of this for the entire team in Episode 7.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Dec. 2025
  • By working with a wide range of manufacturing industry data—from maintenance manuals and machine automation code to complex diagrams, 3D drawings, and process data—gen AI has the potential to establish new ways for people and machines to collaborate.
    Johannes Berndt, Harvard Business Review, 14 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • From comfort food classics to more elevated plates, several bites stood out at a preview event.
    Alexa Stone January 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Your purchase includes dinner plates, salad plates, pasta bowls, cereal bowls, and mugs — enough for six people.
    Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Republicans hold the most Senate seats Can't see our graphics?
    George Petras, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • On Monday, OpenAI inked a deal to buy $38 billion worth of compute from Amazon and will immediately start to access Nvidia’s graphics processing units.
    John Kell, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Those new, more affordable payments follow a series of Federal Reserve rate cuts in the final months of 2025 and make a home equity loan not only one of the cheapest ways to borrow this much home equity, but one of the cheapest ways to borrow money overall.
    Matt Richardson, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The district is expected to make further cuts in the coming months as the total budget allocated to schools is reduced by $14 million, according to a separate presentation Jeffco Public Schools leaders plan to give Wednesday.
    Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • For the rest of her images, Kardashian modeled the see-through lace dress in various parts of the island paradise, also including some pictures that were just part of the scenery.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Like William Klein’s pictures, Roversi’s incorporate accidents, light flares, blur, even damage.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Using prompt engineering, attackers get ChatGPT to generate a step-by-step cleanup or installation guide that actually installs malware.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Jan. 2026
  • If the neighborhood clears all those hurdles, the city installs the bumps.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 21 Dec. 2025
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“Insets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insets. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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