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The phrase "it was etched" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used to describe something that has been engraved or permanently marked on a surface. Example: "The initials of their love were etched into the old oak tree, a symbol of their enduring commitment to each other."
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Damn — there it was, etched right there on the page!
It was etched into every pore of the men who were pressed in front of him.
It was etched with a boast from the sixth century B.C.: "Eumastas, son of Kritobolos, lifted me from the ground".
I saw The Man Who Fell to Earth at the Everyman cinema when I was 20 and it was etched on my mind for ever more.
Flanked by huge blocks of travertine stone, it was etched with key events in Fascist history, in the midst of which was the conquest of the Abyssinian capital Addis Ababa in 1936.
Then it was etched in a mixed solution of 20 ml ammonia hydroxide (25%), 20 ml H2O2 (30%), and 100 ml of deionized water at 80°C.
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"It's etched in stone," he said.
[This, too, is family legend, though it's etched in pain.
"It's etched in stone,'' said Judy MacDonald, the sales manager at Lee USA.
Where she needed translucent glass, she specified that it be etched, rather than sandblasted.
It is etched on the window of his old Jeep, which Jessica now drives.
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