Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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The toll of its re-entry into earth’s atmosphere has etched and discolored some of these.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Now, in the kind of serendipitous turn only October can create, Klein has etched his name into World Series lore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
In opting to go public this way, Catherine has etched a place for herself in the annals of the British royal family and among the women of the House of Windsor.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
“The one you barely recognize, the one whose face war has etched its tiniest details into.”
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2023
With his needle he has etched Montmartre, its cabarets, its angels—in very earthly disguise—its orators, poets, and castaways, and its visiting tourists—"God's silly sheep."
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
