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to mark with or as if with a line or groove in fencing circles it is a mark of honor to have one's face seamed with saber cuts

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Verb
Rohit, India's captain, has had a rotten year with the bat, but was disciplined early against the seaming new ball. Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 Another nice detail: the center seam down the shirt’s back. Abbey Stone, SELF, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
Construction is premium: buttons are clicky, body has seams, and everything feels sturdy. Ben Sin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025 One unique feature of the ball gown was the outer layer was constructed to have no side seams. Shelby Wax, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seam
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Verb
  • In December, the city declined a public records request for complaints filed by Gudino against the city or its police department, claiming that the documents were exempt from disclosure under personnel records.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Barba was released following the arrest on condition of home detention, an order filed Tuesday in a New Jersey district court revealed.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For Night Charades, a lot of the characters are dressed in clothing with a lot of pleats.
    Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Bonus: The unique pleats add a stylish flair to the otherwise relaxed tank.
    Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This, too, is design performed with scalpel and sutures, and the scars don’t show.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The woman had lacerations to her scalp and lip that required 17 sutures, five staples, leaving her permanently disfigured, officials said.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Some people may have been scratching their heads when kids started screaming and crying after seeing a pig wearing a crown; With zombie pig men and skeleton archers riding spiders, why would this specific creature elicit such a guttural reaction?
    Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Patrick Golz purchased a pair of $1,000,000 Gold Rush tickets, worth $50 each, and won the $1 million grand prize after scratching the second ticket, the Virginia Lottery said in an April 8 news release.
    Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This loop shows how much different than normal temperatures will be through Saturday.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Police said a trooper attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a Jeep Wrangler around 11:05 p.m. on the inner loop of Interstate 695 at Greenspring Avenue.
    Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Now, a few months away from his 63rd birthday, Cox is a tastemaker with an authoritative ear who makes audiences groove.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Snow sings about getting her princess groove back, butts heads with her Evil Queen stepmother (a campy Gal Gadot) and gets a little help from her short new friends.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The corrugation process guarantees that the containers are robust and lightweight, which is necessary for stacking and transportation in an efficient manner.
    CMG Containers, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • Electrons in today’s graphene can move up to a micrometer before getting scattered by imperfections, such as corrugations in the surface of the material or grain boundaries between adjacent crystal patches.
    Chun-Yung Sung, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2012
Verb
  • The story was conceived by Stranger Things creators, directors and executive producers Duffer Brothers, as well as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child scribe Jack Thorne and Stranger Things writer and co-executive producer Kate Trefry.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Rob Roy, This Boys Life and Memphis Belle director Michael Caton-Jones is set to helm Eternity from scribes King Orba and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer with a story from Orba.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Seam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seam. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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