pleach

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Recent Examples of pleach Pool Garden Linden trees are pleached and underplanted with liriope, while boxwood hedges frame pink annuals. Owen Holmes, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleach
Verb
  • This was a city already written into outdoor lore, where counterculture and endurance have long braided together.
    Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Synergistic alignment involves braiding the strategies for adapting to single trend-factors into new, vastly superior bundles.
    Jerry Cahn, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Princess Charlotte, also 10, is known to plait her hair back with a braid on each side of her head, with the braids then tied with a ribbon or woven into a longer braid, also tied with a bow.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 21 July 2025
  • If your stylist is plaiting your hair too tightly, be vocal and ask them to ease up.
    Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • The Boise architecture firm, which filed the preliminary materials for the Black Cat site in March, filed an application with the city in August to correct the lapse and get the site platted.
    Rose Evans September 12, Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Originally called Browns Subdivision, the area was a farming development platted by W.L. Brown during the 1920s.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 July 2025
Verb
  • Gulfers—as shrimpers who ply the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are called—sometimes find golf balls mixed in with their Gulf of Mexican shrimp.
    Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Before plying precious stones and metals, pirouettes and pointes were the means of expression for the Belgian.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Thomas Safran & Associates was implicated in a previous pay-for-play scheme involving the Los Angeles City Council.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Last week, Laura Loomer, a far-right activist who seems to have a direct line to the White House, strongly hinted on X that Kennedy’s autism report, which has yet to be released, might implicate acetaminophen.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The museum also held workshops on weaving motankas (traditional Ukrainian rag dolls) and a blacksmithing festival.
    Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
  • On Water Expeditions The Hooghly River weaves through the Indian state of West Bengal from the Ganges, its parent river, to the sea, through a landscape lined with mustard fields and mango orchards.
    Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Pleach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleach. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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