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insert
1. v. To put in between or into.
In order to withdraw money from a cash machine, you have to insert your debit card.
To make your proof easier to understand, I recommend you insert a few more steps.
2. n. An image inserted into text.
3. n. A promotional or instructive leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, tape or disk package, etc.
This software can print compact disc inserts if you have the right size of paper.
4. n. A mechanical component inserted into another.
a threaded insert
5. n. (linguistics) An expression, such as "please" or an interjection, that may occur at various points in an utterance.
6. n. (genetics) A sequence of DNA inserted into another DNA molecule.

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In your programs, this is filed as insert number two.  Yet, for the rendering of the oddity of consciousness, of the way the mind can insert one incongruous thought into another, it can be a novelist's most important resource.

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