as in to fasten (on)
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So, really pulling those things together to create something that would just mesh really well with my perfume.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
11 Sep. 2025 -
With the start of training camp only a few weeks away, Houston has begun the process of meshing one of the greatest scorers in league history with a talented, young roster that won 52 games last season in a treacherous Western Conference.—
William Guillory,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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In the following months, they were seized at bus and train stations, beaten at a hospital and abducted by ambulance.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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The attack killed nearly 1,200 Israelis and abducted 251 hostages, according to Israeli figures.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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October 2020 Fourteen people were arrested by the FBI and state police and charged in connection with a plot to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, and take over the state government.—
Chris Boyette,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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In September 2022, schoolteacher Eliza Fletcher was kidnapped during an early morning run, and her body was later found near a vacant duplex.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Sep. 2025
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Lam advocates for a broad reintroduction of discretion, through which people enmeshed in bureaucracies would be given more room to make individual decisions.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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As Stewart makes clear, conjuring has been enmeshed in American life for centuries.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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Hatt was ejected from the truck, and Winkler was entrapped.—
Caroline Neal,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Aug. 2025
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That total lack of self-awareness and disregard for consequences fed right into Epstein’s warped way of entrapping others.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Spirit (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spirit%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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