selvage

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Recent Examples of selvage From vintage selvage to high-tech stretch, from renewable energy to digital transparency, Advance Sico Vietnam is more than a supplier. Sj Studio, Sourcing Journal, 23 July 2025 Her name also appears centered atop the white selvage, also in violet. Raven Brunner, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025 Staple fabrics such as selvage denim and cottons are par for the course but there’s also more unusual choices, like a beautiful linen fabric made in the Osaka area in the 17th or 18th century that Yagi found in an antique shop in Kyoto. Lily Templeton, WWD, 16 Sep. 2024 Per the name, the style is pulled from the 1950s and recreated in Japan from premium selvage denim. Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023 Cut Drapery Pieces Lay out your fabric panels and trim the selvage edges. Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2023 Slim selvage jeans are made with the utmost care. Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2022 Blue floral wallpaper from Sandberg immerses visitors in saturated color, along with a graphic checkerboard lambswool throw from Wallace Sewell and a custom selvage Japanese denim bedspread designed by Katch Interiors. Laura Raskin, ELLE Decor, 10 Aug. 2022 Featuring nods to some of the fashion brand’s distinctive elements such as the tailoring selvage, echoed in the trim running along the boat’s tubular frame, and the Red Dot motif, the boat is decked in discreet tones of sandy beige and white. Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Noun
  • During the second half of the nineteenth century, politics and military service often made a large nation feel like a small world, as white men in power repeatedly crossed paths in Washington, DC, on Civil War battlefields, and at frontier forts.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The company said the model was even better at coding than previous frontier models, and state-of-the-art on SWE-Bench Verified, a key benchmark that tests how models perform at software development tasks.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Black people in America have always had to contend with these lines of demarcation, reinforced and maintained by white men, and those deputized by them—with guns.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Celebrity colorist and co-owner of Crane hair salon Cass Kaeding once told Vogue that this technique gets you a softer line of demarcation when your roots start to grow out and gives you some dimension throughout.
    Laura Solla, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Moulton’s Senate primary rationale, stated or otherwise, rests on the enduring public image of former President Joe Biden, who withdrew from his 2024 reelection bid after a disastrous debate against Trump revealed limitations of being in office at age 82 and beyond.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There are still limitations, of course.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Jim Cramer agrees with Buffett's philosophy — to an extent.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Travis Kelce may have kept it 100 on most things this summer, but the extent of his knowledge about Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl may not have been one of them.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trump has imposed wide-ranging tariffs on much of the world, carried out a mass deportation program, and introduced restrictions on legal immigration, including the most recent change to the H-1B program.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The existing Kwik Trip store will be put up for sale with a deed restriction that does not allow a convenience store or fueling station to be in its place, according to village documents.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Apple TV+‘s French-language thriller series The Hunt has begun its march to launch.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • What To Know The protest centres on a march through New York City at 12pm but will also take place in other cities.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The United States has enduring interests in Pakistan in combating terrorism and limiting nuclear and missile proliferation, but these pale in significance to Washington’s multifaceted and consequential interests regarding India’s future.
    KURT M. CAMPBELL, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But the energy and demand for those pales compared to the World Cup itself, which only happens every four years.
    State House News Service, Boston Herald, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The trash-bin selection is one of the key steps in the city’s fitful transition to paid trash service, nearly three years after city voters narrowly approved a ballot measure allowing the city to start charging for it after more than a century.
    Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In the Senate, Democrats are withholding support for a measure to keep the government funded at current levels unless Republicans extend subsidies that help some Americans pay for health care through the Affordable Care Act, which are set to expire at year's end, among other demands.
    Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Selvage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selvage. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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