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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Participating in or knowledgeable out
Example:
was in on the scheme
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Context examples:
It may have been twenty yards across, and was banked in on each side by most luxuriant vegetation.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were the broad outer and inner bailies, not paved, but sown with grass to nourish the sheep and cattle which might be driven in on sign of danger.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Without enough energy created by fusion, the core of the star collapses in on itself, while the surface layers are ejected outward.
(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)
Most scientists have homed in on the northern and southern mid-latitudes, which have more plentiful sunlight and warmer temperatures than the poles.
(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)
National Eye Institute scientists led a collaborative study and zeroed in on genes associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of vision loss and blindness among people age 65 and older.
(New study about genes linked to age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)
The IRIS imagery focuses in on material of 30,000 kelvins at the base, or foot points, of the CME.
(Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material, NASA)
If it had been Silver and his lads that were now creeping in on them, not a soul would have seen daybreak.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
"We also examined these models at a much higher resolution than is typically used - we zoomed in on areas of bedrock that were about 1 kilometer instead of the usual 20 kilometers."
(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)
This is a tell-tale sign that the dwarf galaxy came in on a really eccentric orbit and its fate was sealed.
(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft.
(Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres, NASA)
