as in sewing
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as in stitching
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches
in the old days, holes in socks had to be darned by hand
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for darning
Noun
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Designing each jersey can take up to three weeks, while sewing and cutting requires between eight and 10 hours of work.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 May 2026 -
Students have access to six home machines, one industrial straight stitch, one industrial walking foot machine, sergers, cutting table and sewing tools.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
27 May 2026
Verb
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The agentic era will not be won by stitching another agent onto every existing tool.—
Shailesh Manjrekar,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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An Oregon family alleged in a $100 million lawsuit that their 18-year-old son died from an infection after doctors at a Corvallis hospital did not remove pine needles and debris from his wound before stitching it up.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC news,
12 May 2026
Noun
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To avoid any waste, the seamless single three dimensional-pieces were knit on a Shima Seiki knitting machine as seamless, single three-dimensional pieces.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
28 May 2026
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So unusual are these pioneers that others in the center assume there’s some sort of knitting circle going on.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
26 May 2026
Verb
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The company says the system would be able to perform hemorrhage control, wound repair, chest decompression, shrapnel extraction, and field suturing, stabilizing the patient until evacuation can be carried out.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Apr. 2026
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The issue was surrounding his leg amputation surgery, a procedure that involves stretching the muscles and suturing them to provide the bone with padding.—
Jacob Louraine,
Kansas City Star,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Elevator repairs were completed Friday afternoon, and staff were on site to help residents access their apartments.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2026
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The Patriot Rail’s Cowlitz County and Columbia Railway warehouse and locomotive repair shop building, where the fire originated, was a total loss.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
Verb
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This consists of repairing or improving lighting, ADA-accessible restrooms, elevators and escalators.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
29 May 2026
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Emollients sink into the skin to fill in all those tiny gaps, repairing the lipid barrier so your face feels soft, flexible, and smooth instead of rough and itchy.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
28 May 2026
Noun
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Simply tossing all your clothes into the washer can sometimes result in damaged garments that require replacements or mending.—
Wendy Rose Gould,
Martha Stewart,
30 Apr. 2026
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If a piece is salvageable and needs some mending or a powerful stain remover, set it aside and make a plan to attend to it.—
Tessa Cooper,
The Spruce,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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During closing arguments before the jury Tuesday, Grossman’s attorney, Esther Holm, echoed that claim.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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Keys is a quintessential New Yorker, so her documentary makes sense as the closing selection for Tribeca.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
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