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Typically used in Black hairstyles, a weave features either natural or synthetic hair that is sewn into a person's hair, per Indique Hair.
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Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
Her interpretation was hand-sewn in Paris.
—Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
After placing supply caches the previous summer, John and his friends Alexander Drummond and Peter Vanderwall began in mid-March with newfangled fiberglass nordic skis and a pole-free tent that John sewed himself.
—Outside Online, 29 Oct. 2025
My great-grandmothers on both sides sewed clothes for their families, and my own sewing machine belonged to my grandmother, who used it to hem trousers for years.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
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Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
Her interpretation was hand-sewn in Paris.
—Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
After placing supply caches the previous summer, John and his friends Alexander Drummond and Peter Vanderwall began in mid-March with newfangled fiberglass nordic skis and a pole-free tent that John sewed himself.
—Outside Online, 29 Oct. 2025
My great-grandmothers on both sides sewed clothes for their families, and my own sewing machine belonged to my grandmother, who used it to hem trousers for years.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sew
Verb
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When Chicago celebrates, mourns, rallies, or remembers, chances are something stitched in South Chicago is part of the frame.—
Tom Barnas,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Upside-down jellyfish pulse beneath my kayak, and mangrove roots stitch land together, holding the island in place.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The future will not suture, power will not close this wound.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Dec. 2025
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The amendment was debated in the Senate in 1866, as the Reconstruction Congress attempted to suture the nation together after the Civil War and secure rights for freed slaves.—
Rachel Morris,
New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2025
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“Sew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sew. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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