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Recent Examples of suture
New Atlas, 10 July 2025
The 18th Street thugs then attacked a second victim with large wooden planks, causing lacerations that required sutures.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
The story is so bold, the actors deliver top notch performances, and the director sutures you to the screen.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 May 2025
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Verb
The field of surgical robotics is advancing as rapidly as AI itself; a year ago, the Johns Hopkins team had trained a robot to perform an important trio of surgical tasks: manipulating a needle, moving body tissue and administering sutures.
—New Atlas, 10 July 2025
The 18th Street thugs then attacked a second victim with large wooden planks, causing lacerations that required sutures.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
After blood vessels were sutured together, circulation was monitored with various devices.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
The story is so bold, the actors deliver top notch performances, and the director sutures you to the screen.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 May 2025
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Verb
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According to Rønning, this was all done in-camera by building police cars that were pre-cut in half, then stitched back together.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
8 Oct. 2025
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These graphs tell you how to stitch the simpler interactions back together in order to compute the scattering amplitude of the original collision.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The outer is covered in on-trend dark brown faux suede accented with a seam of faux leather stitching for a modern look.—
Shea Simmons,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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The fit-and-flare silhouette has a stand collar, V-neckline, rolled cuffs, and side-seam pockets, and it’s designed to hit right below the knees on most people.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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According to the autopsy report obtained by Dateline from the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, McNeal’s tractor veered from the road, colliding with an overpass abutment, and then caught fire.—
Sarah Dahlberg,
NBC news,
17 Sep. 2025
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On the evening of Wednesday, July 23, the couple was on a 35-foot boat on the Niagara River when witnesses saw the vessel crash into a concrete abutment at around 9:38 p.m. local time, according to authorities.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
28 July 2025
Noun
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Marionette costumes often comprise string-like attachments and jointed outfits that enable playful, puppet-like movement.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Oct. 2025
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It is also valued for emotional balance, often used in meditation to release grief, fears or heavy attachments.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Off-road, the shorter wheelbase of the Grenadier can occasionally feel awkward, lifting tires into the air excessively despite the solid axle’s articulation.—
Michael Van Runkle,
Robb Report,
24 Sep. 2025
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An international bestseller later turned into a film by Mira Nair, the book owed its success, in part, to its blunt articulation of the fear and loathing provoked by the American Empire even among many of its eager janissaries.—
Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Suture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suture. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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