sew up

as in to consume
to have complete control over sewed up the available openings so that no one else had a chance to play golf

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Recent Examples of sew up After a wild Oscar season, the 97th Academy Awards are now just days away—and while a handful of races are all sewn up, others feel entirely up in the air. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025 And who should win By David Sims With last year’s slow-roll Oppenheimer sweep, the leading Oscar contenders seemed to have sewn up their wins long before the ceremony began. David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025 Disney has spent heavily on sports rights over the past few years, sewing up long-term deals with both the NFL and the NBA that cost tens of millions over the course of those contracts. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025 With four consecutive losses and seven potential Quad 1 games remaining on the schedule, Indiana is likely to sew up its eighth non-winning campaign over the last nine seasons. Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sew up
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  • The consistent overproduction of milk is the reason federal dietary guidelines recommend that adults consume three cups of dairy per day, as well as why half-pint milk cartons are a mainstay of the nation’s school cafeterias.
    HubSpot, HubSpot, 2 May 2025
  • Additionally, the study of chemical isotopes — variants of carbon and nitrogen that reflect plant or animal proteins consumed — from a bone sample taken from the mummy’s spine revealed a high-quality diet based on grain and a large proportion of meat.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
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  • Meta is currently in court against the Federal Trade Commission, which has alleged that the company monopolizes the social networking market and shouldn’t have been able to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp.
    Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Google monopolized the market providing tools to publishers and the market connecting publishers and advertisers, referred to as an ad exchange, Brinkema found.
    Julia Shapero, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • That expectation of secrecy continues indefinitely, with only the pope himself possessing the authority to make exceptions.
    Christopher Watson, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Both India and Pakistan possess nuclear weapons, and any military escalation could lead to catastrophic consequences.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
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  • Elsewhere, Colorado does have strict policies in place for its athletics Hall of Fame.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2025
  • The movie set, like all others, should have only had blanks on hand, but somehow a number of live rounds made their way to the location and one such bullet ended up in the gun that went off as Hutchins and Baldwin lined up a shot in an old church.
    Marco della Cava, USA Today, 1 May 2025

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“Sew up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sew%20up. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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