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as in to slit
to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)
incised the tree with a sharp ax to get the sap flowing
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Recent Examples of incise
There, the child incised into the skirt on the right turns out to be standing on one of their mom’s feet, while the child incised on the left is actively stepping up on her other foot.
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Carved from wood as a durable, 3-foot-tall, totem-like column, it was then wrapped in linen, covered with smooth plaster and incised and painted.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Expertly mimicking a child’s earnest handiwork, the picture being incised into human flesh shows two stick-figure girls holding hands.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
Somewhat lazy streams may morph into straight, narrow channels that incise down, destabilizing banks.
—Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Carved from wood as a durable, 3-foot-tall, totem-like column, it was then wrapped in linen, covered with smooth plaster and incised and painted.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Expertly mimicking a child’s earnest handiwork, the picture being incised into human flesh shows two stick-figure girls holding hands.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
Somewhat lazy streams may morph into straight, narrow channels that incise down, destabilizing banks.
—Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incise
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His arrest has inspired a wave of online merchandise, including keychains, mugs, and clothing, some featuring the chilling words etched on the bullets linked to the crime.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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The balustrade at the far end affords one of the great panoramas of the Eternal City, with the dome of St. Peter’s etched on the horizon.David Laskin, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Cover with the top crust, crimp the edges together, and cut slits in the top crust to allow steam to escape.Amy Sherman, Southern Living, 3 Dec. 2024
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Charging documents obtained by KIRO, Fox 13 and the Kitsap Sun allege that the 23-year-old suspect called 911 and claimed his brother had slit his own throat.Liam Quinn, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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In early December, UNESCO inscribed a brand new batch of international traditions to its Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list.Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024
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The bullets in the Ziploc bag reportedly had words inscribed on them, similar to the bullet casings found at the scene of the shooting last week.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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But the laws of football physics tell us A&M’s resurgence will be felt long after the last piece of Vandy’s goalposts are recovered, sliced up and sold for $40.35 on eBay.David Whitley, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
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Others have one cooking scene so memorable that the film simply had to make the list: Annie baking a single cupcake in Bridesmaids, Paulie slicing garlic with a razor blade in Goodfellas, that final sequence in Phantom Thread.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
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The $9,000 Rolex Submariner, engraved with Reeves’ name, turned up in a police raid on four houses in Santiago.Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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In the first category, persistence paid off for metal detectorists in Wales and Denmark, who uncovered a 300-year-old silver thimble engraved with a message of enduring love and a 1,500-year-old gold ring that may be linked to the Frankish Merovingian dynasty, respectively.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
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Yet to remain in the public psyche for so many years, there must be a throughline — how else could a concept that feels thoroughly ripped straight from the Eighties still be thriving today?Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2024
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Symptoms include sudden sharp, tearing, or ripping chest pain that radiates to the shoulder blades, back, abdomen, and hips.26 6.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 31 Dec. 2024
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This illustration provided by researchers depicts a person carving an osteoderm from a giant sloth in Brazil about 25,000 to 27,000 years ago.CBS News, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
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The north end of the range, where Copper World is proposed, is already packed with dozens of drill pads and connecting roads — white lines and patches carved out of the brown slopes — where Hudbay has extracted cores to prove the potential value of its prospect.Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
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Critics quickly shifted their anger from Krishnan to Musk and Ramaswamy, who Trump tapped six weeks ago to co-lead a new Department of Government Efficiency that will work to slash federal government spending, waste and regulations.Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
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The retailer has discounted the latest Pixel 9 series and slashed the prices of the 2023 Pixel 8 range.Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Incise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incise. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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