inscribe
verb (used with object)
to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
reinscribe
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a word derived from
inscribe.
Example Sentences
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Their hope is that by physicalizing these traumatic incidents, they can reinscribe their memories and dispel their power.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
“At the same time, it can significantly reinscribe and reinforce those gender binaries.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
But rather than reinscribe them onto the art they once owned, “Afterlives” instead offers 10 images of … well, some other persecuted Jews, as photographed by August Sander, the great portraitist of interwar Germany.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Brennan-Jobs’s attempt to take control of some modest part of the Steve Jobs myth has almost inevitably unfolded in ways that reinscribe his power, both over his family and a reverent public.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 6, 2018
But on another level we could say that digital texts don’t so much cancel the book’s closedness as reinscribe it within themselves.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2012
