as in traps
to catch or hold as if in a net
dolphins sometimes become meshed in fishnets
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Recent Examples of meshes
Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
Danny Grant, chef and partner for Maple & Ash, said that the restaurant’s playful side meshes well with the Miami aesthetic.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
Describing the fighting between Russia and Ukraine as a proxy war meshes with a Russian narrative of why the war started.
—Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 6 Mar. 2025
Wilson’s signature soul-twang vocal is front and center and meshes well with Smith’s smooth, pop voice, bolstered by stomps, handclaps and laid-back but hooky, folk-pop groove.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
But Day could bring in a coordinator with a defensive line background who meshes with Larry Johnson to help there after the Buckeyes lost LaAllen Clark, Johnson’s graduate assistant, to Texas.
—Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
Her restlessness meshes with her curiosity, her wide-ranging inventiveness with her risk-taking.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
While King’s Dove partnership meshes well with her history of advocacy for women, it’s also informed by her personal experience.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 4 Feb. 2025
After prioritizing him in trade talks, Phoenix is eager to see how Richards meshes within their lineup.
—Evan Sidery, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
The roster meshes with Young’s background.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
Danny Grant, chef and partner for Maple & Ash, said that the restaurant’s playful side meshes well with the Miami aesthetic.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
Describing the fighting between Russia and Ukraine as a proxy war meshes with a Russian narrative of why the war started.
—Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 6 Mar. 2025
Wilson’s signature soul-twang vocal is front and center and meshes well with Smith’s smooth, pop voice, bolstered by stomps, handclaps and laid-back but hooky, folk-pop groove.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
But Day could bring in a coordinator with a defensive line background who meshes with Larry Johnson to help there after the Buckeyes lost LaAllen Clark, Johnson’s graduate assistant, to Texas.
—Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
Her restlessness meshes with her curiosity, her wide-ranging inventiveness with her risk-taking.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
While King’s Dove partnership meshes well with her history of advocacy for women, it’s also informed by her personal experience.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 4 Feb. 2025
After prioritizing him in trade talks, Phoenix is eager to see how Richards meshes within their lineup.
—Evan Sidery, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meshes
Noun
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In 2020, the Justice Department, joined by a group of states, accused Google of illegally stifling competition by paying the makers of web browsers and phones to set Google as their default search engine.—
John Ruwitch,
NPR,
20 Apr. 2025
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Our primary overall benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, puts a system through its paces in productivity apps ranging from web browsing to word processing and spreadsheet work.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The possible legal tangle between Minnesota and the Trump administration mirrors a similar situation between the administration and Maine, whose leaders have also refused to follow Trump’s anti-trans sports order.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
23 Apr. 2025
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Bateman and his team had been studying tau tangles, the abnormal clumps of protein that form inside the neurons of people with Alzheimer's.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But the Knicks can’t fall for the trap, and Brunson, who finished with 34 points on 12-of-27 shooting from the field to go with eight assists on the night, had a frustrating start to his evening.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2025
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Europe is wary of sleepwalking back into the trap of reliance on Russian energy resources that caused an energy crisis at the outset of the 2022 invasion and mounting speculation that Europe might reopen its taps has sparked pushback from key European voices.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Meshes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meshes. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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