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Recent Examples of suture
Sarah El Deeb,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
Treatment typically starts with clipping the fur around the injury, cleaning the area and, if needed, suturing the skin.
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Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
21 Jan. 2026
Jonny Williams,
The Providence Journal,
23 Jan. 2026
The original injury in the UCL is also repaired with a suture to further strengthen the joint.
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Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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Verb
The surgeon sutured the wounds but knew the arm would have to be amputated.
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Sarah El Deeb,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
Treatment typically starts with clipping the fur around the injury, cleaning the area and, if needed, suturing the skin.
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Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
Health care providers can perform X-Rays, put on splints and suture wounds, test for respiratory illnesses and viral infections such as COVID and strep throat and perform urine analysis, among other services.
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Jonny Williams,
The Providence Journal,
23 Jan. 2026
The original injury in the UCL is also repaired with a suture to further strengthen the joint.
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Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suture
Verb
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The base of the legs is stitched with a tulip hem for a dressier look and a curved silhouette.
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One of her Today colleagues even stitched the phrase onto a cushion for her.
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That all changed with a runner on in the bottom of the seventh, when Kurtz clobbered a Brent Suter four-seam fastball 437 feet to center, extending the A’s lead.
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In the fifth, Caglianone put a charge into a Michael McGreevey four-seam fastball on the outside corner, sending a laser-beam shot into the Cardinals’ bullpen in left field.
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The city declared a state of emergency and has since started repair work; last week, workers began moving 150 large boulders on either side of the pier’s abutment to stabilize it, said Pacifica City Manager Sean Charpentier.
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The cars slid backward and would have dropped through the opening made by the raising to the abutment of the bridge if policemen had not attracted the attention of the bridge tender by firing their revolvers.
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Barriers to a meaningful life As digital natives, Gen Zers are aware of their attachment to screens, with more than half citing their unproductive use of technology as a significant barrier to developing a meaningful life.
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Those jack-of-all-trades attachments are part of it, but so are this Shark top seller’s four heat and three airflow options.
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Crafted in 18-karat gold with black-enamel accents, its supple articulation is a balance of structure and lightness—high jewelry made modern, wearable, and dynamic.
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Accordingly, its most perfect articulation did not appear last year in a gallery at all, but in the pages of Vanity Fair magazine.
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“Suture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suture. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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