Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for selvages
Noun
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Australia’s hypersonic ambition Hypersonic flight, defined as speeds exceeding Mach 5, has become one of the most strategically important frontiers in aerospace and defense.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025 -
Each of the Internet’s 7 Phases overcomes the limits of the previous phase, while also opening new frontiers.—
Mallik Tatipamula,
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Regional restrictions may apply.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Details are still emerging over exactly what the new flight restrictions will mean for airline travelers.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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When Hernán helps Julia and her young daughter, Maribel, navigate treacherous borderlands, their desperate journey triggers the wrath of a ruthless trafficking syndicate.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
7 Oct. 2025
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This is what the borderlands taste like, that casual blending of cultures and flavors.—
Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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What limitations does that place on you?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Some dissenting judges on the court, though, said the 1977 law allows the president to regulate imports during emergencies without specific limitations.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In recent days, both Democrats and Republicans desperately tried to avoid the SNAP cutoff, introducing competing measures to insulate the program from the shutdown.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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But as temperatures dropped below freezing and the final four runaways remained at large, activists feared that Westergaard might take more extreme measures to reclaim them.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Additional states including Florida, Kansas, Indiana, Maryland, Utah, Illinois, and New York, have considered (to differing extents) the idea of updating their maps, Reuters reported.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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The characters are all based, to different extents, on real people.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Over the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, an additional inch of rain is possible, bringing storm total maximums up to 10 inches in the Bahamas.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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For most sports, the highest possible margin is three while higher-scoring sports like football, basketball and lacrosse have higher maximums.—
Jack Murray,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Since February 2023, the company has grown in Miami from 800 employees to about 2,000, even including the latest terminations.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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After a week of chaos and confusion, the fates of more than 600 CDC workers hang in the balance now that a federal judge has temporarily blocked their terminations.—
Christian Orozco,
NBC news,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Selvages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selvages. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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