sewn up

variants or sewed up
past participle of sew up
as in monopolized
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 sewn up Mark is reluctant to put up their impressive Westside home as loan collateral, but Sam persuades him that the risk will pay off and the election is all but sewn up. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026 California sewed up 2nd place, amazingly, in the group with a win over the plucky Miami team. — Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 Last year, the Team UAE Emirates XRG rider had pretty much sewn up overall victory by the time the race left the Pyrenees, just over halfway through the race. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 July 2026 Candidates seeking several other seats have their general election matches sewn up. — Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026 Since Sweets didn't have any severe internal injuries, the dog's vets treated her and sewed up her wounds within several hours, and only needed to keep her under observation for one night. — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026 Chalamet may be the one nominated for best actor this evening, but Jenner has the Best Hype Woman category well and truly sewn up. — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2026 Given the fact that Sinners overperformed—scoring an unexpected nod for Delroy Lindo in best supporting actor—and One Battle After Another slightly underperformed, perhaps the best-picture race isn’t as sewn up as pundits had previously believed. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 22 Jan. 2026 Choose from solids or stripes in a palette of traditional colors, like dark red, navy, cream, and tan, each accented by a line of shiny gold buttons sewn up the front. — Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sewn up
Verb
  • South Florida monopolized the jackpot luck in Thursday’s lone major money Florida Lottery draw game.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Hannah-Jones recounts how assignments went ungraded and disruptive students monopolized the attention of teachers—on the rare occasions those teachers weren’t absent.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2026
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  • And insurers controlled by former Los Angeles Lakers owner Mark Walter lent billions to companies tied to his financial empire, leading to lawsuits and an SEC investigation.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Most concerning of all was Dolan’s installation of his longtime crony, Isaiah Thomas, on the board of a new corporate entity that controlled the Knicks.
    — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026
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  • One was Larry Page, the 53-year-old Google cofounder who had ties to California for decades and began severing them after the wealth tax proposal.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Both events revealed that the old models of long- and short-duration GRBs had holes in them.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • An additional software test will examine whether computing applications can be deployed and managed reliably on the Moon.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
  • And no one has managed to fetch samples from Mars, let alone its moons.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026

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“Sewn up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sewn%20up. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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