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as in to insert
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Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
Detail insets introduce a visual spark to a simple kitchen backsplash while staying within your price range.
—Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2023
Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
Organic Valley hopes to bring 500 farms into its carbon insetting program over the next five years, Rakobitsch said.
—Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
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Noun
The back features one small patch pocket with a cutout inset for quick card removal and an overall clean look.
—Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
Detail insets introduce a visual spark to a simple kitchen backsplash while staying within your price range.
—Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2023
Verb
But instead of retrieving eggs, fertilizing them outside of the body and re-inserting them back into the body, IUI insets sperm directly through the cervix into the uterus, fertilizing the egg inside the body.
—Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
Organic Valley hopes to bring 500 farms into its carbon insetting program over the next five years, Rakobitsch said.
—Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
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“Inset.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inset. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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