as in embroidery
the representation of something in terms that go beyond the facts
with considerable embroidering the owners of the bed-and-breakfast have turned a few odd incidents into a full-blown legend of ghostly apparitions
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as in exaggerating
to add to the interest of by including made-up details
Dad likes to embroider his fishing stories
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Recent Examples of embroidering
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Jan. 2026
Dan Zaksheske,
FOXNews.com,
22 June 2026
The touchscreen allows for easy controls and lets users visually preview the design before embroidering starts.
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Bestreviews,
Mercury News,
25 May 2026
Has Alec been embroidering the truth?
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Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
21 Nov. 2025
Hawley and a team of craftspeople worked across the globe embroidering, aging and tinting the costumes for the film.
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
Creators show off their embroidering techniques or favourite embroidered pieces, inspired by cartoons like Snoopy or Up.
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Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
But by embroidering the drama of an American navigating Paris Fashion Week with stories of other women caught in the whirl, Winocour dilutes them all.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
In an industrial workroom in the heart of Rawalpindi, Nasreen Aziz is busy embroidering a pattern on a piece of fabric.
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Hasan Ali,
Christian Science Monitor,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
Promoting the preservation of centuries-old skills that have been passed down for generations—like Al-sadu (geometric embroidering) and Talli (hand-weaving)—the center offers educational workshops and training courses as well as daily artisan showcases.
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Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
In his letter to Hawley, Manfred said that rule was collectively bargained with the MLB Players Association and prohibits players from writing, attaching, affixing, embroidering or otherwise displaying messages on apparel or playing equipment.
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Dan Zaksheske,
FOXNews.com,
22 June 2026
The touchscreen allows for easy controls and lets users visually preview the design before embroidering starts.
—
Bestreviews,
Mercury News,
25 May 2026
Has Alec been embroidering the truth?
—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
21 Nov. 2025
Hawley and a team of craftspeople worked across the globe embroidering, aging and tinting the costumes for the film.
—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
Creators show off their embroidering techniques or favourite embroidered pieces, inspired by cartoons like Snoopy or Up.
—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
But by embroidering the drama of an American navigating Paris Fashion Week with stories of other women caught in the whirl, Winocour dilutes them all.
—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
In an industrial workroom in the heart of Rawalpindi, Nasreen Aziz is busy embroidering a pattern on a piece of fabric.
—
Hasan Ali,
Christian Science Monitor,
15 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embroidering
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In Arabic, tatreez refers to embroidery in general as well as the specific Palestinian form, which is often a social practice taught through generations by grandmothers and mothers.
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In his second term, the president overhauled the Oval Office with gold embroidery, picture frames and decorations.
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Jan Paul van Hecke of the Netherlands has been involved in two scraps already, the latest when he was hit while going for a header and crumbled, perhaps exaggerating a tad, after Morocco's Azzedine Ounahi challenged the header, as well.
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The four-time Olympian was not exaggerating.
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Pirate ship is no exaggeration.
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But the fastest swimming speed claims are almost certainly indefensible exaggerations.
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Knoxville’s shock of white hair, a result of him stopping coloring it during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, kept reminding us that these were humans.
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The first showed him walking hand-in-hand with his sons, and the second showed Jack crouched down in a church pew as one of his sons played with toys, surrounded by coloring books and stickers.
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And the thing about caricatures?
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Too often, caricatures are deployed to justify unfair and unjust treatment.
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The professors were bitter and angry—angry at a university, a state, and a country where their fields of study were regarded as obsolete, useful only for padding the schedules of STEM students or as a backstop for STEM burnouts.
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Perhaps this isn’t new—Star Wars has been taking small moments from the original trilogy and padding them out for decades now—almost everything seen on screen in those first three films has been resurrected, fleshed out with backstories and unnecessary details.
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Unlike dynamic stretching, static stretching holds muscles in a lengthened position for an extended period.
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Pre-production ran from January to April 2025, with post-production stretching from May 2025 through March 2026.
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There was no embellishing symbol, no longer a visual bow to the crown.
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Across almost every level of competitive basketball, embellishing one’s height is so common as to be unremarkable.
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“Embroidering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embroidering. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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