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Recent Examples of pleat
Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2025
Plus, save on breezy tops with pretty details like pleating, ruffles, and Swiss dots.
—Isabel Garcia, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Megan Zhang, Saveur, 16 Jan. 2025
The stitches essentially make a pleat in the LES.
—Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024
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Verb
This stylish top has subtle pleating along the chest that meets a fun, puffy sleeve.
—Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2025
Plus, save on breezy tops with pretty details like pleating, ruffles, and Swiss dots.
—Isabel Garcia, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
Get the recipe > Pork and Chive Dumplings Wrap, pleat, and boil a pot of dumplings—a symbol of wealth and prosperousness in China because of their resemblance to gold ingots—to invite good fortune in the year ahead.
—Megan Zhang, Saveur, 16 Jan. 2025
The stitches essentially make a pleat in the LES.
—Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleat
Verb
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Indoors and out are braided together: The roof extends into a broad canopy, and the inner stone wall turns and slips through the glass to become an exterior façade.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
28 Apr. 2025
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The resulting piece was a pair of butterfly wings braided into her hair intended to symbolize her recent metamorphosis.—
Jessie Schiewe,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Other braids seen on the runway included messy, pulled out pigtails and tiny face-framing plaits.—
Ranyechi Udemezue,
Vogue,
26 Feb. 2025
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Lawrence also wore her hair in thick plaits, and donned a pair of orange lensed, oval sunglasses.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But for me, returning to Top Chef wasn’t about closing a loop or arriving at a conclusion.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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In our test, which involves playing a YouTube video on a loop with the screen at full brightness, the phone lasted 16 hours and 6 minutes on a single charge.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Walker’s velocity was down a tick across the board, with his four seam fastball 2.2 mph slower than his average.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2025
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Place loin seam side down on a rimmed baking sheet; brush evenly with mustard.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Cat-like Predator (29 million years ago): A set of pawprints discovered in a volcanic ash layer could belong to a nimravid, a saber-toothed and bobcat-sized carnivorous predator, such as the Hoplophoneus.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Clinically-proven to increase lip volume by up to 20% and reduce fine lines by up to 33%, the smoothing formula will prettify your pucker.—
Celia Shatzman,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Nothing really pulls or puckers, which is difficult to achieve on this type of build.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Joining the Senators for their expansion season, Millen’s transition from the blue crease to the TV booth was smooth.—
Rob Rossi,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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There was hair that had to be flocked, individually, into the chin piece and the brow piece that was to reflect the same crease as Ethan’s.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Pleat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleat. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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