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variants also durned

darned

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verb

past tense of darn
as in stitched
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches in the old days, holes in socks had to be darned by hand

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Adjective
  • By the time the reunion rolled around, Jen had been sentenced to prison, and the entire season felt more cursed than ever — which is saying something, since season three began filming with Jennie Nguyen until she was fired over racist Facebook posts.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
  • In the increasingly cursed year that is 2025, audiences know enough about TV to know when the name of the show gets awkwardly dropped into a seemingly random bit of dialogue, that moment usually comes with a little extra meaning.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Microsoft has campaigned hard to switch Chrome users to its Edge browser, taking flak for the nags and ads stitched into Windows itself, including ones that interrupt Chrome installations on a PC.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The vast majority of leather belts on the market are machine stitched, with a vanishingly small minority distinguished by a painstaking process called saddle-stitching.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The watch measure 44 mm, is made from blasted titanium and features a honeycomb skeletonization of the case that reduces the weight by 50 percent, Ross told Robb Report.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
  • When the moment of triumph finally arrived, with a blasted inside-in forehand to the postage stamp corner of the court, Djokovic, 37, crouched to his knees and immediately succumbed to the first set of tears.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 4 Aug. 2024
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“Darned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darned. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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