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Recent Examples of meshwork
How Tires Are Made Starting from the inside out, a tire’s strength is provided by its carcass, a meshwork steel or synthetic fibers.
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Wes Siler, Outside, 16 Sep. 2025
Protect Your Eyes The eye's drainage system (the trabecular meshwork) can be damaged by blunt force injury, such as an object hitting the eye.
—Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 10 Mar. 2025
Some of the telecommunication equipment was shielded by a Faraday cage, a metal meshwork designed to deflect a nuclear electromagnetic pulse that can fry electronics.
—Jack Randall, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
This surgery involves creating a flap in the trabecular meshwork to allow fluid to drain.
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 3 Oct. 2024
Wes Siler, Outside, 16 Sep. 2025
Protect Your Eyes The eye's drainage system (the trabecular meshwork) can be damaged by blunt force injury, such as an object hitting the eye.
—Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 10 Mar. 2025
Some of the telecommunication equipment was shielded by a Faraday cage, a metal meshwork designed to deflect a nuclear electromagnetic pulse that can fry electronics.
—Jack Randall, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
This surgery involves creating a flap in the trabecular meshwork to allow fluid to drain.
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 3 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meshwork
Noun
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Nerve blocks, which pinpoint groups of nerves (a plexus or ganglion), can be administered to block pain receptors and reset function.—
Dr. Patricia Richard,
Hartford Courant,
14 Apr. 2026
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The word complexity comes from the Latin plexus, which means intertwined.—
Carlos Gershenson,
The Conversation,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The kitchen had two notable features—a big cast-iron woodstove on which everything was cooked, and a dishwasher that stood up like a blockhouse, designed to receive trays two feet by two with wire-mesh bottoms and sides four inches high.—
John McPhee,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Apple has done a commendable job spreading the weight across the mesh headband, and the plush earcups don't clamp down too hard.—
Christian de Looper,
PC Magazine,
18 Apr. 2026
Noun
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And this complex web of emotions is what Claire and Jamie are grappling with when Bree, Roger, Marsali, and her children arrive at Fraser’s Ridge to inform them that their son is dead.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
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While the patriarch of the family holds no official title at Bolloré SE, behind the scenes his power remains undiminished thanks to a complex five-layer web of family holdings.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
17 Apr. 2026
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The conglomerate declined to comment on a possible Barneys revival, according to WWD.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
16 Apr. 2026
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The label’s young artists were aware of the Queen’s pedigree, and Cruz recorded at a furious pace — mostly with Pacheco, but also with tastemaker Willie Colón, former jazz conguero Ray Barretto, and as resident diva with the label’s conglomerate of icons, the Fania All-Stars.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Meshwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meshwork. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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