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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And having lost our zeal for the idle etchings of some bored buckaroo, we slink off into the shade.
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Hydrofluoric acid is the etching agent for silicate-rich rocks; carbonates can be etched with various weak acids.
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It doesn't have to be artwork like paintings, drawings, etchings, prints or even posters.
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The ice on the river was smooth and transparent, not crisscrossed with the white etchings of skaters' tracks.
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There were faint etchings in the gold, but she couldn't make them out.
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These turned out to be prints of William Green's soft-ground etchings taken as proofs from the plates in the early 1800's.
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Weak etching gives a thin, patchy stain.
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When the etchings are taken down inmates will have another kind of picture to put in their place.