as in stitches
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches
the doctor cleaned, sutured, and bandaged the wound
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Verb
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This 10-day private yacht voyage by Kensington Expeditions stitches the whole picture together.
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The video stitches past and present with archival clips, studio cuts, and a handshake that seals this intergenerational torch-passing moment.
Noun
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Major League Baseball was the original path Kelce sought to become a pro athlete, gripping seams on the ball instead of running the seam route as a tight end in the NFL.
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Press the seams together, flip over so the seam is down, and shape gently into a ball.
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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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Even the attachments are more impressive, like the Fluffy optic cleaner head, which now has a brighter green light to illuminate invisible dust on hardwood floors.
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Only its articulations and the environment in which it is felt shift.
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The 1984 speech that so moved Baldwin remains one of the greatest articulations of American liberalism ever made.
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“Sutures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sutures. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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