as in consumed
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 sewed up
The Phillies’ loss on Saturday sewed up the top seed for the Brewers entering the postseason.
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Sam Blum, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Sam Blum, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sewed up
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When to seek medical attention Anyone who has consumed this type of mushroom should follow up with their primary care physician or a liver specialist to monitor for liver failure, doctors recommend.—
Amy McGorry,
FOXNews.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Some have found a groove again, writing in their temporary homes, while others have yet to return to their practice, consumed by the logistics of loss and relocation and out of step with their routines.—
Erica Zora Wrightson,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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After prohibition, a few producers monopolized beer for decades.—
Bahar Anooshahr,
AZCentral.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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After a judge ruled in August 2024 that the tech giant had illegally monopolized online search, the Justice Department argued it should be required to sell off its Chrome browser.—
Julia Shapero,
The Hill,
12 Jan. 2026
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Observations of transits of Venus, which only occur twice per century, on average (most recently in 2012), were humanity’s first indication that Venus possessed — whereas Mercury lacked — a substantial atmosphere.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Feb. 2026
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Had Woods possessed Ford’s mass-production capability, the price gap might have narrowed.—
Bill Gourgey,
Popular Science,
5 Feb. 2026
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Princess Mette-Marit Epstein had dozens of email exchanges with Mette-Marit, the Crown Princess of Norway, as recently as 2014.—
Erin Mansfield,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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The 83-year-old senator has had multiple health issues over the past few years, including publicly freezing during a press conference in 2023 and falling ahead of a Senate vote in October 2025.—
Lillian Metzmeier,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Feb. 2026
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The same family owned the drawing for more than 200 years, after Armand Francois Louis de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin — a Swiss diplomat working for the King of Denmark — acquired it during his travels around Europe in the 18th century.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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The bridge eventually gained a reputation for being the victim of periodic vehicle strikes, frequent enough that a local merchant who owned a store nearby kept buckets of paint and some repair supplies handy at the back of his shop.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Sewed up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sewed%20up. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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