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Recent Examples of plait
Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
Other braids seen on the runway included messy, pulled out pigtails and tiny face-framing plaits.
—Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Among the haunting remnants, one image has stayed with me—a child's lock of hair, neatly plaited and tied with a small red ribbon, matted with mud.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Her black hair was tied into a long plait that fell over her shoulder.
—Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
Other braids seen on the runway included messy, pulled out pigtails and tiny face-framing plaits.
—Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
The various story strands are plaited together so neatly as to become a single braid, with an emphasis on how much these lives interlock as the shelter inmates support each other.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Among the haunting remnants, one image has stayed with me—a child's lock of hair, neatly plaited and tied with a small red ribbon, matted with mud.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plait
braid
Noun
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Eli in blonde Viking braids with a purple chalice?—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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No detail was overlooked, with two thin braids even dangling down and disappearing into the singers’ low-rise burgundy pants, like jack cables.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Plait.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plait. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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