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.—
Ritu Upadhyay,
Footwear News,
23 May 2026 -
The video stitches past and present with archival clips, studio cuts, and a handshake that seals this intergenerational torch-passing moment.—
Natalia Cano,
Billboard,
27 Feb. 2026
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.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
27 May 2026
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Press the seams together, flip over so the seam is down, and shape gently into a ball.—
Gretchen McKay,
Twin Cities,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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No sequel has been officially greenlit and no cast attachments have been announced.—
Lily Brown,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
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This radical attempt to dilute and deny family attachments is the specter haunting The Hill, a remarkable debut novel by Harriet Clark.—
Julius Taranto,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Only its articulations and the environment in which it is felt shift.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Apr. 2026
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The 1984 speech that so moved Baldwin remains one of the greatest articulations of American liberalism ever made.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Sutures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sutures. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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