fillet

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Verb
  • In her stunning debut, The Waterbearers, Sasha braids the stories of three generations of Black single mothers—her grandmother, her mother, and herself—with portraits of leading Black women figures in American culture.
    G'ra Asim September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
  • At Campillo, mid-blue denim was braided into exquisitely relaxed shirting.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The road that ribbons through the foothills rises and twists like the tail of a cat.
    Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Here’s a peek at the new flavors and some of the ingredients that inspired them: Lemon curd & whey This light and citrusy flavor uses whey as a substitute for lemon juice to make lemon curd that ribbons throughout the ice cream base.
    oregonlive, oregonlive, 24 May 2023
Verb
  • Belly, with her flaws and indecision, reflects the awkward but deeply human process of figuring oneself out.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Everything else will figure itself out.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Today, that plant is one of thousands on the grounds, a place where monarch ferns frill around the auburn necks of melinonii philodendrons and buttercream and magenta orchids hang like pendants from a jabuticabeira, its spreading copper limbs blistered with purple fruit.
    Michael Snyder Pedro Kok, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The collection, which will surely be talked about as the best of the entire week, was an unflinching reminder that a serious depth of femininity — the frilled, bedazzled, artistic kind — should never be mistaken for weakness.
    Gabrielle Korn, refinery29.com, 13 Feb. 2020
Verb
  • More viscous than your average face mist, the milky formula is laced with ceramides and lipids to relieve tight, thirsty skin and refresh dull, dry-looking makeup without so much as a flush or a tingle.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Steele hung there pretending to be dead for two hours before managing to cut the chute lines and make his way to safety.
    Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Better yet, keep it in your gardening apron or hang a spray bottle on your garden gate.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Displayed in the same first-floor gallery, Because (2018) comprises artworks composed of photographs in wooden frames under a curtain embroidered with a phrase explaining what triggered her photographic act.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • It is also embroidered and overprinted on a graphic T-shirt, and woven into a soft, tonal allover jacquard pattern in a silk blend.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But one of the building’s façades is still a temporary wall, lacking the elaborate statues and adornments that will one day garland it.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Ana Swanson and Lazaro Gamio Selfies From the Front: Inside the ‘V.I.P.’ Brigade for Ambitious Russian Officials After a stint with a drone unit led by a member of Parliament, Russian officials return to work, and promotions, garlanded as war veterans.
    Lazaro Gamio Nataliya Vasilyeva Ryan Francis Bradley Ilham Ahmed, New York Times, 29 May 2025
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“Fillet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fillet. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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