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Recent Examples of indent
Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2024
Celebrity nail artist Queenie Nguyen gives these bright copper nails indents and groves for a unique way to dress them up.
—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024
Mark Gurarie, Health, 19 July 2024
Archaeologists in Virginia uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War, including chimney bricks and musket balls indented with soldiers' teeth.
—CBS News, 17 May 2024
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Noun
As a result, instead of data being stored via two-state binary code, it can be stored via a three-state ternary code in which the absence of an indent is a 0, a 0.3- to 1.0-nanometer-deep indent is a 1, and a 1.5- to 2.5-nanometer-deep indent is a 2.
—Verb
For example, spoon nails are indented and curved towards the center, while pincer nails curl away from the center and deeper into the folds of your nail.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for indent
Noun
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Each of these works has a crenulated indentation and a line descending it (or drip as the case may be).—
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There are slight indentations along the side of the blade that prevent slices of food from clinging to the knife.—
Verb
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Graduate student small forward Selton Miguel scored 13 points, and freshman center Derik Queen notched his 15th double-double of the season on 12 points and 15 rebounds and added three assists and two blocks.—
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Fifty-Fifty notched Oscar-winning Forrest Gump and Dune scribe Eric Roth to adapt it.—
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The purple hue is the result of the delamination of the phosphor-silicon layer in the streetlights' LED chips.—
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There's also a USB-C charging port, fingerprint ID built into the power button, a flashlight, and an NFC chip for payments.—
Verb
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Avoiding those problems, Feinberg carved out a niche as a distressed investor, less politely referred to as a vulture, who knew how to find meat on the bones of decaying businesses.—
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The reliefs are nearly life-size, officials said, and carved into a wall of stone belonging to a monumental tomb.—
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Lighter scratches only touch the surface while moderate to deep scratches can usually be felt by sticking your fingernail in the slit to determine how deep the scratch really is.—
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The look featured a strapless black dress with a thigh-high slit.—
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But Perkins uses James’s physicality—the actor is visibly chiseled—to signal to the audience that Hal is fully capable of confrontation, if and when needed.—
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America has stronger protections for speech, better safeguards for religious liberty, and more robust shields for conscience than anywhere else — and, better still, those protections are chiseled into our foundational law.—
Noun
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Signs that a cutting board needs to be replaced include deep grooves that are hard to clean, cracks, or warping.—
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Ever since Alcaraz lost that immense Olympic final to Djokovic in August, the Spaniard has generally struggled to find his groove.—
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Bourdelle’s voluminous works in marble, bronze, and wood fill the lofty mezzanine, while his bronze sculptures Héraklès archer (Hercules the Archer) and Centaure mourant (Dying Centaur) highlight the garden.—
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Co-developed with NISMO, Nissan’s in-house racing and customizing arm, the Hyper-Force’s carbon-fiber body is sculptured like a fighter jet with the sole purpose of going as fast as possible.—
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“Indent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indent. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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