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suturing

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verb

present participle of suture
as in stitching
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches the doctor cleaned, sutured, and bandaged the wound

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Recent Examples of suturing
Verb
The issue was surrounding his leg amputation surgery, a procedure that involves stretching the muscles and suturing them to provide the bone with padding. Jacob Louraine, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026 Treatment typically starts with clipping the fur around the injury, cleaning the area and, if needed, suturing the skin. Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 21 Jan. 2026 Researchers compared the performance of the autonomous bot and a human surgeon on the same suturing task and found that the bot's stitches were more uniform and made a tighter seal. IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suturing
Noun
  • For example, searches for sewing patterns were up 152 percent year over year.
    Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The sewing element was what struck Gomez most.
    Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The innocent taste test went largely unnoticed for weeks until creators began stitching their reactions and flooding social feeds with a storm of memes and satirical posts.
    Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Decades before ‘quiet luxury’ was a TikTok buzzword, Givenchy was stitching simplistic stunners for Hepburn, chief among them being that famous not-too-little black dress.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Petzold’s fixation with replacement gave way to an interest in repair.
    Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Tit-for-tat attacks on oil and gas sites across the Middle East in recent days have all but foreclosed that glide path, since repairs could stretch on for months and diminish fuel supply in the meantime, industry analysts told ABC News.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Over the years that’s included adding moving lights and a computerized control board, restoring the original 1938 urns at the theater’s main entrance, repairing the main curtain and replacing the outdated sound system that had been there since the theater reopened in 2004.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • While Milamore’s core business is its signature Kintsugi collection — inspired by the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold — zodiac pieces have also proved popular, particularly among certain signs, according to Inaki.
    Milena Lazazzera, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Solorio's cousin said the two children face a long road ahead and funds raised from selling homemade meals will go toward their healing.
    Madisen Keavy, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • These thermal baths in Palm Springs, stewarded by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians for more than five millennia and long considered a portal to the spiritual underworld and a place of healing, welcomed my paralyzed body.
    Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • People wait to enter the Boulder Theater on the closing night of the 2013 Boulder International Film Festival.
    Libby Smith, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The demolition marks the closing of a chapter and a new beginning, Rodríguez said.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Jamal Murray had 28 points and two game-sealing free throws for Denver (39-24).
    Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • With cleaning, simple repairs, thoughtful sealing, and a few charming touches, your driveway can feel new again and become a highlight of your home.
    Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Today, the room hosts complex Lego sets in various states of completion, along with shelves of semi-functional robots and baskets of knitting filled with sweater fragments.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe that looks like knitting, writing or sketching without distraction, or even meditating.
    Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026

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“Suturing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suturing. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.

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