as in damns
the smallest amount or part imaginable
nobody gave a darn about us when we were poor, but now that we are rich, we have friends we never knew about!
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as in stitches
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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Verb
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Pragmatic, unflappable, and just a few ticks toward the warmer side of cynicism, her work is what stitches the show together.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025 -
In Katong, Bebe Seet stitches one-millimeter glass beads onto slippers in a shophouse studio.—
Paul Jebara,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Miami got some good licks on Mendoza, bloodying his lip early on a shot from Jakobe Thomas that probably could have drawn a flag for targeting.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2026
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Magazine staffers gathered in the editor’s office and listened in awe to pedal steel licks and tight, pretty harmonies — from the Dead!—
Ben Fong-Torres,
Rolling Stone,
18 Jan. 2026
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The Blackhawks dressing room was a rowdy scene after the game, their hoots and hollers reverberating throughout the bowels of the United Center.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Cowboy and cowgirl hoots and hollers complement the rumbling of the massive animals’ hooves as they’re rounded up into the corrals.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Dec. 2025
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For individual cellular damage, your body either repairs it or destroys the cell and replaces it.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Jan. 2026
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The new material repairs itself after sustaining damage, even at extremely low temperatures.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Jan. 2026
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As Madeleine Grynsztejn observes in her catalogue contribution, the clothes worn by his figures are based on doll costumes that Marshall sews by hand.—
James Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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After fleeing the Tower, Anne sews her head back on and embarks on a quest for vengeance.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Darns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darns. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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