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inset

2 verb
     
Related topics: Visual, Technology, Newspapers, Publishing
in‧set2 past tense and past participle inset, present participle insetting [transitive]
1AVT if something is inset with decorations or jewels, they are fixed into or on its surface
inset something with something
a wooden box inset with ivory
inset something into something
spotlights inset into the ceiling
2TCN to put a small picture, map etc on a printed page
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