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as in web
usually meshes plural
something that catches and holds
a routine request that got hung up in the meshes of the state bureaucracy
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as in netting
a fabric made of strands loosely twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals
spread a mesh across the doorway to keep out insects
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as in to trap
to catch or hold as if in a net
dolphins sometimes become meshed in fishnets
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Recent Examples of mesh
Kayla Kitts, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2026
Strain chicken poaching liquid through a fine-mesh sieve into a large bowl.
—Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 May 2026
Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 12 May 2026
The instruction to hang onto the old maps came in a May 4 email that also provided information on how local elections supervisors could obtain data to redraw their local maps to mesh with the new state one.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 May 2026
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Noun
The ripstop and mesh upper creates a statement look while adding breathability for long days on your feet.
—Kayla Kitts, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2026
Strain chicken poaching liquid through a fine-mesh sieve into a large bowl.
—Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 May 2026
Verb
The Blackhawks would like to ideally have someone jump out and mesh with Bedard the best.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 12 May 2026
The instruction to hang onto the old maps came in a May 4 email that also provided information on how local elections supervisors could obtain data to redraw their local maps to mesh with the new state one.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mesh
Noun
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That kind of depth of view is the only way astronomers can get a true picture of the cosmic web.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 May 2026
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Throughout their first five albums, the band has spun a web, not unlike the orb weavers of their native Virginia, that marries country, rock, honky-tonk grit and Appalachian soul with rowdy barroom energy.—
Chris Barilla,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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The protective netting that arches over so many of the roads in the eastern Donbas region – stopping drones in their tracks – is not your friend here, but a limitation on movement.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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But the netting observed from the satellite imagery covers the entire boat.—
Aditya Jadhav,
Interesting Engineering,
15 May 2026
Verb
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Although Djena wasn’t literally trapped in the Toures’ home, she was trapped by her circumstances.—
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Once trapped, the ions are reduced to a ground state through lasers, similar to what freezing them at absolute zero achieves.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
18 May 2026
Noun
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Scratched carpets are buried under tangles of wires and computing gear.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 May 2026
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Electrical outlets and power strips Outlets, surge protectors and the tangle of cords behind an entertainment center collect more dust than people realize.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
8 May 2026
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Certainly the puzzles for Karpathy got harder—neural nets and then language models—but the method never really changed.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
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The property investor, which tends to be a high-net-worth individual or family office, gets a high-rent tenant plus major depreciation deductions, while the operator recycles capital into expansion.—
Diana Olick,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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“Mesh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mesh. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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