selvages

plural of selvage

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for selvages
Noun
  • Designed to tackle one of the last frontiers of home robotics – efficient carpet care – the R2 uses advanced AI navigation to cover every corner of the home, promising to deliver a professional-grade clean with minimal human input.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Here’s how that research, pioneered more than 40 years ago, has led to new frontiers in modern physics, as well as 2025’s Nobel Prize in physics.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Earlier this month, China significantly tightened its restrictions on rare earth elements, which make up a key input in semiconductors found in an array of products from cars to home appliances.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Millions rely on them to bypass geographic restrictions, protect sensitive communications or simply browse more securely.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This is what the borderlands taste like, that casual blending of cultures and flavors.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The bill would provide farmers with the option of receiving partial payments to cover crop losses, as well as lift payment limitations for price and revenue loss programs.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike other cities that create a 10-year plan, Pittsburg aims to develop a 40-year urban forestry master plan to be better prepared for climate change, sustainability, and budget limitations, said Farmer.
    Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Index-level measures, such as the S&P 500’s earnings revisions breadth, have retreated from earlier highs but remain in line with typical seasonal patterns.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The May 1998 theft prompted the museum to take stricter security measures, however.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The characters are all based, to different extents, on real people.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
  • To differing extents, all of these shows are love letters to forms pundits spy on the chopping block—the late night show, the local rag, and the good old fashioned art-house film.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In surveys, more than half of companies expect to raise deductibles, out-of-pocket maximums, or otherwise redesign plans to temper the trend.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That could include no longer covering GLP-1 drugs, or raising deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums.
    Alana Semuels, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After a week of chaos and confusion, as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees described it, the fates of more than 600 workers hang in the balance now that a federal judge has temporarily blocked their terminations.
    Erika Edwards, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Seven government agencies have begun the process of laying off over 4,000 workers, prompting multiple unions to file for an injunction to block the terminations in a federal court in Northern California, according to the BBC.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Selvages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selvages. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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