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
  • The oil industry has spent more than a century pushing into new frontiers.
    — Mia Gindis, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • Whether the impetus is to satisfy a desire for seclusion or to achieve the investment benefits that development allows, these three properties, triangulated across the globe, open up new frontiers and ways of living.
    — Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of frontiers
Noun
  • The Texas Medical Association is also calling for restrictions on prediction markets, including requiring users to be at least 21 years old and limiting advertisements that target children and young adults.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2026
  • The restrictions have reached deeply into education, where phones are not only tools for communication but also part of how students study, save lessons, contact teachers and stay connected to their families.
    — Fatima Faizi, NPR, 10 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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  • 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
Noun
  • 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
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
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  • 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
Definition of terminations
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“Selvages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selvages. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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