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...operation is called arthroscopic knee surgery, and more than a quarter-million Americans were getting it each year. Doctors would make three small incisions in the knee, insert a tiny scope, flush debris out of the area with water and sometimes shave away rough surfaces around the joint to help the tendons and ligaments glide more smoothly. Part of the appeal of the surgery was that it was minimally invasive; most patients walked away requiring little or no recovery time...
...failing to bump Korea in traditional fashion, they resorted to the national pastimes of making excuses. They may have somewhat of a point this time, but what about the other 16? The truth is that Spain plays with the flair of the promising matador that always fails to insert the sword in the neck of the bull in the first try, which is the mark of a good fighter. The Spaniards love to use the cape, but the close sight of the horns freezes them...
...look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate;” “Be specific;’ etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook...
...chilly bit of a damper on what should have been a bright day for the season's most commercially successful network: an unseasonably cold May rainstorm forced the Rockefeller Center party crew to throw up tents, as waiters continually swept away a half-inch of rainwater with brooms. (Insert metaphor for the networks vainlly trying to sweep away the tide of cable and audience fragmentation here.) Still it didn't stop your valiant reporter from rubbernecking at Ashleigh Banfield (who held court around a teensy drinks table - or was it Tina Fey?) and swiping the beef carpaccio with both fists...
...anyone who's ever had a pet knows, the joke's on us: animals - with the exception of all poodles and the occasional sissy hamster - are not absolutely controllable. We do maintain sway over cats and dogs, primarily because their social hierarchy allows us humans to neatly insert ourselves in the dominant position. But while domesticated pets have had much of the wild bred out of them, they are still, at heart, animals - something your dog or cat is happy to remind you of, with a sharp nip or bark, should you ever forget, and try, say, to dress little...