embed
verb (used with object)
to fix into a surrounding mass.
embedment
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a word derived from
embed.
Example Sentences
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Each features an embedment inside a 15-inch crystal net structure.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
These predecessors’ ruses with perspective, and philosophical gameplay, should reframe Braque’s embedment of calling cards and signed documents, Picasso’s outlines of painters’ palettes and easels, or Gris’s collages of fake marble and faux-bois wallpaper.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
That embedment can take place through the weight of the stainless steel or the careful soldering of the aluminum, or the classicized majesty he brings to his subjects.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
As the Netflix docuseries Trial by Media reveals, the history of American media’s embedment in the criminal justice system has a much deeper and dizzying history than one sensational, oft-cited case.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2020
It concerns the anchorage of rods by the embedment of a few inches of their length in concrete.
From Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910 by Edward Godfrey
