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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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Noun
  • Thornburgh, 70, gets income from contract sewing and Social Security.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • If unavailable, try finding a sewing pattern at a crafts store or hit up your most creative relative who owns a sewing machine.
    Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The style featured stitching around the boot collar and down the center.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
  • By stitching these images into data, Richardson is tracking how climate change is rewriting the seasonal calendar.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The book covers pocket, knee, crotch and belt loop repair techniques, taking in and expanding the waist, hemming, adjusting leg widths, transforming jeans to shorts and skirts, splicing.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 10 Nov. 2025
  • China plans to expand Tiangong in the coming years by adding more modules, along with plans to launch a space telescope similar to NASA's Hubble that will orbit nearby and be able to dock for repairs.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Even then, the employees explained that repairing the engine's synchronization issues wouldn't solve its oil burning issue.
    Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • More than 70% the country is without power and officials warn that repairing critical infrastructure could take weeks, if not longer.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her work examines themes including gender, healing, cultural destruction, and sustainability through the lens of politics.
    News Desk, Artforum, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Throughout her healing process, Erica has also opened the floodgates to the internet’s opinions, posting near-daily updates about the state of her face to her thousands of followers on TikTok.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The closing session at the end of the two weeks is often delayed, sometimes by more than a day, as negotiators work around the clock to hash out a final agreement.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Shortly before the blackout began, Disney announced the closing of a deal to take 70% control of Fubo last month, giving it 6 million pay-TV subscribers on Fubo and Hulu + Live TV.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • After Mookie Betts’ game-sealing double play on an Alejandro Kirk ground ball in the bottom of the 11th inning in Game 7, the Dodgers were celebrating once again.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Lightfoot appeared to have a game-sealing sack on the play, but Miami called timeout before the play.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Brit List script, which treads the line between black comedy and drama, is set in the early 20th Century Hungary where a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That said, its functionality should improve considerably once the technology is scaled up, which would partially involve adding more needles to the knitting block.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Suturing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suturing. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

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