birdlimes

Definition of birdlimesnext
present tense third-person singular of birdlime
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Verb
  • Audio from the incident captures the moment the plane and person collided.
    Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • The end result is a small but expressive robot version of Rocky that captures much of the personality fans loved in Project Hail Mary.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • Just as your brain effortlessly combines visual data from two pupils about a palm’s width from each other, the VueBuds' AI meshes two separate camera images into one.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Part of the Nordic ESS Group collection of hotels, Rox meshes soothing Scandinavian minimalism with a welcome moodiness.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Now researchers have identified a new material within trinitite called a clathrate—a cagelike chemical lattice that traps other atoms inside it.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
  • Their daughter, Rose, traps them in her dolls.
    George Yang, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • Smart, anti-theft crossbody bags An overfilled tote can easily turn into a black hole mid-travel—everything sinks to the bottom, and nothing feels secure.
    Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2026
  • Anne Hathaway played the main character, an aspiring journalist who bags a job at a major fashion magazine, despite having no interest in fashion herself.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Ahmed, who created the show, enmeshes his character in a Pakistani British context—and a Bondian conspiracy.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Once there, Eileen enmeshes herself in a community of other Navy wives, settling into life on the island through Italian lessons and cooking.
    Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This superb thriller about an obsessed fan (Kathy Bates) who rescues, and then entraps, a best-selling author (James Caan) still stands as an edge-of-your-seat experience.
    Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • The Korea Times noted that under the Capital Market Act, any person who nets KRW5 billion or more by making false representations about a financial product faces a prison term of at minimum five years, with a life sentence possible at the upper end.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
  • After the premium increase is factored in, the average retiree nets roughly $38 more per month.
    Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • One shop sold starched paper shirt collars still, and the buttons needed to attach them, and arm garters too for the full get up.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The inside of shirt collars traps body oils and soil.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 31 Dec. 2025
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“Birdlimes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birdlimes. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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