SELVAGES Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

selvages

noun

plural of selvage

as in frontiers

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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

Noun

When the health and safety restrictions were lifted, the spending floodgates opened in a different way.

— Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
But the Thunder, who remain $14 million above the luxury-tax line, did not trade Dort, Aaron Wiggins and Isaiah Joe because the second-apron roster-building restrictions scared them.

— Fred Katz, New York Times, 24 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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Two sources familiar with the matter told CNN over the weekend the uranium enrichment provision includes stipulations imposed by the US, but details of potential limitations are unclear.

— Arpita Dasika, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
In an AI‑enabled world, failure will be a lot less about operational limitations, inability to build, lack of analysis or compromised access to information.

— Sid Mohasseb, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of limitations

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And if Swift was to visit on a particular day, there would be stronger security measures for fans, the media and anyone who is working on campus.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026
In an interview posted by the business daily RBC, Wildberries founder Tatyana Kim said her company was discussing the possibility of tax relief and other measures with Russia authorities to aid sellers affected by attacks.

— Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 23 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

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The suit also requests injunctions to prevent future faculty terminations and speech suppression on campus.

— Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
What Strong Leadership Decisions Have In Common When difficult people matters arise, such as terminations, complaints, misconduct or underperformance, leaders often rely on instinct.

— David Price, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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