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sutures 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of suture
as in stitches
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches the doctor cleaned, sutured, and bandaged the wound

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sutures

2 of 2

noun

plural of suture

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Verb
  • The system then stitches these submaps together into one coherent 3D model, allowing a robot to move quickly while maintaining spatial accuracy.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • French seams, which both require more materials and require more construction time than other finishing options; the seam allowance is long enough to allow the raw edge to be folded back and hidden away with tiny, invisible stitches.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Balle’s protean impulse—her constant rewiring of thematic attachments—makes our reading experience varied and rich.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Sutures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sutures. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.

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