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Recent Examples of pleat
Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2024
Fabric draping and pleating was used to create a sheer effect on the garment’s bodice.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 4 Dec. 2024
Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 2025
The pants have flattering pleats and come in an opaque fabric to keep pesky lines from showing through.
—Nicol Natale, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
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Verb
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For the leather upholstery, the array of options includes contrasting piping and stitching, as well as pleating and quilting.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2024
Fabric draping and pleating was used to create a sheer effect on the garment’s bodice.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
And then the surface of it is covered in these undulating micro pleats that reference the underside of a mushroom.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 2025
The pants have flattering pleats and come in an opaque fabric to keep pesky lines from showing through.
—Nicol Natale, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleat
Verb
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Socratic thinking is a way of braiding together the uncertainty required for growth with the rigor required for endurance.—
Joshua Rothman,
The New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2025
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Box braids, to cite just one example of African hair braiding, take a long time to perfect.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The series follows nine-year-old Pippi, a plucky girl with a pair of quirky plaits who moves to a Swedish village following the death of her parents.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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One of my black dresses in silk or cotton, knee socks, Simone Rocha pearly Crocs, a cashmere jumper, and a ponytail or two plaits.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
28 Sep. 2024
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And so were four coaches who spent long hours on the ice teaching jumps and spins, twizzles and loops, double and triple axels to talented skaters, some on the path to the Olympics.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
5 Feb. 2025
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Privacy and data are at the core of hyper-personalization, so doubling down on zero-party data and consumer feedback loops are a focus for us in 2025 and beyond.—
Andre Claudio,
Sourcing Journal,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But the seams of Brooks’ writing show often, becoming impossible to ignore.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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Mining Her Country’s Nightmares: In her fiction, Han Kang has probed at the seams of South Korea’s historic wounds.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 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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Image For Wynne, the buttons are not only entirely superfluous to the communication humans and dogs already have but also potentially a distraction from their natural barks and howls, their tail wags and tucks.—
Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2025
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Nice finished band in front, excellent for a dress top with a French tuck if needed.—
Taylor Lane,
StyleCaster,
18 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Thankfully, Paradise manages to generate real tension even before the big twist hits, with multiple layers of conspiracies and cover-ups.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
26 Jan. 2025
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Questions lingered and still do: How did someone manage to get past the president’s security checkpoints, including three layers of protection?—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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These compounds, which look like rings at the molecular level, interact with proteins in your saliva to produce a dry, astringent sensation that makes your mouth pucker.—
Rosemary Trout,
Discover Magazine,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Pleat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleat. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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