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Recent Examples of sew up
Laying low at Frank’s hideaway, Castle sews up his own bullet wound, while Karen cleans up Matt’s.
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 15 Apr. 2025
The Cavs have already sewn up home-court advantage throughout the Eastern Conference playoffs as the No. 1 seed.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
The Brewers have been just as adept at run prevention while all but sewing up the NL Central.
—Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
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
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 15 Apr. 2025
The Cavs have already sewn up home-court advantage throughout the Eastern Conference playoffs as the No. 1 seed.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
The Brewers have been just as adept at run prevention while all but sewing up the NL Central.
—Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sew up
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Endless arguments could consume tons of precious computing cycles.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Recipes for everything from ceviche mixto with popcorn (!) to flan to sweet plantains are sure to delight, and the book’s chatty, convivial tone is likely to linger in your mind long after the meal has been consumed and the dreaded dinner dishes are done.—
Hayley Maitland,
Vogue,
7 June 2025
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Even so, in her exercise books Constance had listed details concerning the kind of boy who might monopolize her affections.—
Jim Shepard,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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In April 2025, in a separate DOJ antitrust prosecution of Google, federal district court Judge Leonie Brinkema held that Google had illegally monopolized open-web advertising markets.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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No monarch ever actually possessed a divine touch (or donkey ears), but historical records indicate at least two men with the name Midas oversaw the Phrygian kingdom during the first millennium BCE.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
12 June 2025
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The Solar Orbiter observations also revealed that while the equator of the sun, where the most sunspots appear, possesses the strongest magnetic fields, those at the poles of our star have a complex and ever-changing structure.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
11 June 2025
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Currently, there is no data on the containment status of the fire and the cause has yet to be determined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
6 June 2025
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Summers has two siblings: a sister named Taylor and a brother named Will.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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“Sew up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sew%20up. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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