selvages

noun

plural of selvage
as in frontiers

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  1. frontiers
  2. restrictions
  3. borderlands
  4. limitations
  5. measures
  6. extents
  7. maxima
  8. terminations
Noun
  • And regenerative medicine, cellular therapies, protein engineering, and synthetic biology while opening entirely new therapeutic frontiers raise the conundrum of who will pay for them.
    — Steve Brozak, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • The oil industry has spent more than a century pushing into new frontiers.
    — Mia Gindis, Fortune, 9 July 2026
Definition of frontiers
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  • Nonprofit experts told the Herald/Times earlier this year that the foundation’s actions could jeopardize its tax-exempt status because of the strict restrictions on how nonprofits can engage in politics or lobbying.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • When devices are set up for children, parents would set the child's age, which would automatically trigger certain restrictions required by the state.
    — Ben Szalinski, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of restrictions
Noun
  • 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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  • Satellites in certain orbits can receive near-continuous solar exposure, enabling uninterrupted renewable energy generation without many of the atmospheric limitations on Earth.
    — Shelli Brunswick, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Aslexandria Holloway didn’t place limitations on her students.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026
Definition of limitations
Noun
  • Officers attempted lifesaving measures on both the victim and the suspect, but both were pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
  • Following statewide legislation passed in 2025, Georgia’s public schools receive roughly $68,000 per school in state grants to spend on security measures, such as cameras, officers, crisis-response training or mental health support.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of measures
Noun
  • 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
  • But those payments won’t contribute to their insurance deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums.
    — Ali Swenson, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Minimum overnight temperatures are also warming faster than daytime maximums in the US.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026
Definition of maxima
Noun
  • Recent reporting and research on NIH grant terminations suggest that health equity work has been hit especially hard and that scientists from historically underrepresented groups have borne a disproportionate share of the damage.
    — Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Last month, the Supreme Court reversed lower-court judgments that had postponed the administration’s TPS terminations for Haiti and Syria while litigation continued.
    — Stepheny Price , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of terminations
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“Selvages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selvages. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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