as in stitched
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches
the doctor cleaned, sutured, and bandaged the wound
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Recent Examples of sutured
The travelogue portion of Walking the Bypass is sutured, sometimes maladroitly, to a history of the Crown’s abuses of Indigenous peoples.
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sutured
stitched
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The graft is secured with sutures and the incision in the elbow is stitched back together.—
Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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All those old versions of me were stitched into these garments.—
Junnelle Hogen,
Outside,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Sutured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sutured. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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