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Recent Examples of sew
In the dying days of the Russian Empire, highborn ladies would willingly cut the dirty fingernails of the peasant Grigori Rasputin and then sew the clippings onto their dresses like sacred talismans.
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Gerard Degroot, Air Mail, 25 Apr. 2026
The cotton industry is at the forefront of creating sustainable textiles, with opportunities for environmental improvement and resource conservation sewn right into the cotton life cycle.
—Catherine Salfino, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026
Cichock, 35, learned to sew as a child, but perfected the craft in college, making costumes for the theater department.
—Audrey Pachuta, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
Students walk past paintings of historical scenes that include Betsy Ross sewing an American flag and down hallways lined with portraits of the Founding Fathers.
—Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2026
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Gerard Degroot, Air Mail, 25 Apr. 2026
The cotton industry is at the forefront of creating sustainable textiles, with opportunities for environmental improvement and resource conservation sewn right into the cotton life cycle.
—Catherine Salfino, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026
Cichock, 35, learned to sew as a child, but perfected the craft in college, making costumes for the theater department.
—Audrey Pachuta, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
Students walk past paintings of historical scenes that include Betsy Ross sewing an American flag and down hallways lined with portraits of the Founding Fathers.
—Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sew
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The app allows for remote collaboration, so additional doctors, consultants, or even medical students in other rooms or cities can beam in and observe every cut and stitch, as if through his eyes.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
30 Apr. 2026
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Cutting off a guy’s finger and stitching a tiny bomb into someone’s chest is essentially the same as remembering how to put together a gun or outrunning a horde of bad guys.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Apr. 2026
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The nerves can be sutured back together to minimize pain, Bank said, but most breast surgeons haven’t been trained to do this.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2026
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The company says the system would be able to perform hemorrhage control, wound repair, chest decompression, shrapnel extraction, and field suturing, stabilizing the patient until evacuation can be carried out.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Sew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sew. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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