SELVAGES Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

selvages

noun

plural of selvage

as in frontiers

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Noun

Here’s why so many people are exploring one of the world’s last true frontiers.

— Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
The oil industry has spent more than a century pushing into new frontiers.

— Mia Gindis, Fortune, 9 July 2026

Definition of frontiers

Noun

Any restrictions on player registration would not apply to the Premier League, but UEFA does have the power to limit whom Newcastle can name in a ‘List A’ squad for European competitions.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 18 July 2026
Another issue is the characterization of the country’s Citizenship by Investment Program, which the White House cited in justifying the travel restrictions.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026

Definition of restrictions

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American patriotism; native, Spanish and Mexican roots On a Sunday afternoon in early May, troupes of dancers in San Elizario, Texas, turned the town plaza into a stage for a reenactment of 500 years of borderlands history.

— Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 June 2026
And in Istria, especially Croatian Istria but also Dubrovnik and across the borderlands of Slovenia and northeastern Italy, Malvasia takes a very different form.

— Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026

Definition of borderlands

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The team has filed a provisional patent for their conductive ink, but there are still a few limitations.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 14 July 2026
You're bound by limitations, including the ability to create only two webpages, a 1GB monthly data transfer limit, and 50 CMS items (blog posts, images, etc).

— Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026

Definition of limitations

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European regulators playing catch up Taken together, the measures would be a seismic shift in the way European banks are regulated.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 16 July 2026
The high price of implementing AI at scale comes at a time when manufacturers find themselves in the middle of cost cutting measures in response to tariffs.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 16 July 2026

Definition of measures

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Among the concert recordings are three full concerts being released for the very first time and several more full recordings of shows that have been excerpted, to varying extents, for past releases.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition.

— Judy Berman, Time, 1 June 2026

Definition of extents

Noun

Blanchard argued that the terminations were unlawful because the government had already entered into binding agreements and obligated the funding.

— Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Oberlander was even more direct in his assessment, suggesting the terminations were politically motivated.

— Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 3 July 2026

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