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as in nettings
a fabric made of strands loosely twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals
the basketball didn't go into the basket—it just hit the net
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as in traps
a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise
drug runners caught in an elaborate net set by the police
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as in tangles
something that catches and holds
caught in a net of palace intrigues
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as in earnings
the amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received
his net for the year was about 60% of his total income
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as in hearts
the central part or aspect of something under consideration
the net of the report on race relations is that things are better but not good enough
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as in meshes
to catch or hold as if in a net
the kite was stubbornly netted in the branches of the willow tree
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as in grabs
to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly
a police sting that netted drug dealers from all parts of the city
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Recent Examples of nets
Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Using traps and nets, researchers collected dozens of adult and juvenile bloody red shrimp, including pregnant females, at Wisconsin Point and the Montreal Pier.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
Kerry said industrial fishing fleets continue to exploit the oceans, with some vessels operating thousands of miles from home and using massive nets that indiscriminately catch marine life.
—ABC News, 16 June 2026
In finance and elsewhere, LLMs, chatbots and various kinds of neural nets do make mistakes.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
Sharks often become bycatch – entangled in fishing nets not intended for them, they are rendered helpless and face certain death.
—Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
Writers have cast their nets into that fertile current and brought up a rich haul of fiction.
—Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
Strung-up nets drip with ersatz fish and nautical paraphernalia, and the sunny interior with colorful highlights echoes coastal Mediterranean architecture.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
Israeli soldiers have resorted to buying commercial fishing and soccer nets to entangle the incoming aerial threats, according to reports.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 11 June 2026
Each show nets the Cyclones about $1 million.
—Matt Baker, New York Times, 12 May 2026
The Korea Times noted that under the Capital Market Act, any person who nets KRW5 billion or more by making false representations about a financial product faces a prison term of at minimum five years, with a life sentence possible at the upper end.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
After the premium increase is factored in, the average retiree nets roughly $38 more per month.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Bridgeport comeback nets 1st title Bridgeport’s Jared Contreras recorded a hat trick and the Bulls scored three times in overtime to down Brookshire Royal 5-2 in the boys Class 4A Division II championship game on Thursday.
—Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
In Georgia, a motorist’s first distracted driving offense nets a $50 fine and one penalty point on their driving record.
—Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 5 Apr. 2026
The deal nets the Yankees something in return for Vivas, who is out of minor league options and was not going to make the team’s Opening Day roster.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026
The United States’s $38 trillion national debt now nets an annual interest bill of another trillion dollars each year.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security awarded a contract to a company that makes a drone with massive nets to ensnare other drones.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Using traps and nets, researchers collected dozens of adult and juvenile bloody red shrimp, including pregnant females, at Wisconsin Point and the Montreal Pier.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
Kerry said industrial fishing fleets continue to exploit the oceans, with some vessels operating thousands of miles from home and using massive nets that indiscriminately catch marine life.
—ABC News, 16 June 2026
In finance and elsewhere, LLMs, chatbots and various kinds of neural nets do make mistakes.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
Sharks often become bycatch – entangled in fishing nets not intended for them, they are rendered helpless and face certain death.
—Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
Writers have cast their nets into that fertile current and brought up a rich haul of fiction.
—Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
Strung-up nets drip with ersatz fish and nautical paraphernalia, and the sunny interior with colorful highlights echoes coastal Mediterranean architecture.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
Israeli soldiers have resorted to buying commercial fishing and soccer nets to entangle the incoming aerial threats, according to reports.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
Verb
The Natural profile is the default for both SDR and HDR and nets good-looking colors with strong detail and smooth motion.
—Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 11 June 2026
Each show nets the Cyclones about $1 million.
—Matt Baker, New York Times, 12 May 2026
The Korea Times noted that under the Capital Market Act, any person who nets KRW5 billion or more by making false representations about a financial product faces a prison term of at minimum five years, with a life sentence possible at the upper end.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
After the premium increase is factored in, the average retiree nets roughly $38 more per month.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Bridgeport comeback nets 1st title Bridgeport’s Jared Contreras recorded a hat trick and the Bulls scored three times in overtime to down Brookshire Royal 5-2 in the boys Class 4A Division II championship game on Thursday.
—Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
In Georgia, a motorist’s first distracted driving offense nets a $50 fine and one penalty point on their driving record.
—Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 5 Apr. 2026
The deal nets the Yankees something in return for Vivas, who is out of minor league options and was not going to make the team’s Opening Day roster.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026
The United States’s $38 trillion national debt now nets an annual interest bill of another trillion dollars each year.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nets
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Officials with Connecticut’s mosquito management program are hard at work setting up traps and collecting mosquitoes for the presence of viruses that can cause illnesses in people, including West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
12 June 2026
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During their hospitalization, Alameda County Vector Control laid rat traps in and around the RV and sealed the vehicle, only opening it to remove the dead rats.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
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Those tests include amyloid and tau PET scans to help detect amyloid plaque and tau tangles in the brain, while allowing for earlier detection and monitoring disease progression, according to the American Brain Foundation.—
Wendy Coschignano-Ford,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2026
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Before 2014, bull kelp—a whip-like kelp with bulbous air bladders and trailing blades —stretched across Northern California’s coastline in dense tangles.—
Tatjana Baleta,
Time,
28 May 2026
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Back in 2019, team ownership aimed to use development profits from the Coliseum site to help finance a massive housing and ballpark project on the Oakland waterfront next to Jack London Square.—
Daniel Borenstein,
Mercury News,
12 June 2026
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Not allowing insurance companies to shift profits to out-of-state subsidiaries would save me more money than this disaster.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2026
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General Daily Insight for June 15, 2026 Fresh sparks greet steady hearts and invite open doors.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
15 June 2026
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Minimalistic nail art like tiny red hearts is the perfect addition to strawberry milk nails.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
15 June 2026
Verb
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The design is what grabs your attention at first sight.—
Utkarsh Sood
June 12,
New Atlas,
12 June 2026
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Radke grabs a book and hands it to me.—
Marlow Stern,
Variety,
10 June 2026
Verb
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For a system that increasingly decides who earns billions in market access, that is a strange thing to leave unwritten.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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No one earns their degree alone.—
Albert D. Mosley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2026
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Cuba also maintains elite forces trained for counter-special-operations missions, guerrilla warfare, ambushes, sabotage and close protection of senior leaders.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2026
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Even in areas not under its direct control, the widespread sympathy in rural areas allows JNIM to set up ambushes along the main roads and dominate the main supply routes into the capitals, especially in Mali.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
10 May 2026
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Sipper talked about how her company trains with scalar field outputs of simulation data, and the meshes of objects.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
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Functional mapping techniques, for instance, can relate similar shapes but are restricted to open-loop motions on clean meshes.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Nets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nets. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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