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Recent Examples of seam
Cathy Nelson,
InStyle,
16 Jan. 2026
Since the shoulder seams unfasten under pressure, the armholes can't be used as makeshift nooses, either.
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Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
17 Dec. 2025
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2026
Constructions are also enhanced with seam details like Ulla Johnson’s split-front pencil skirt.
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Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
24 June 2026
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Verb
Dress the Population Livia Fit and Flare Dress The crepe-like material, bateau neck, princess-seamed upper with cap sleeves, and flared skirt make this Dress the Population pick a classic that won’t go out of style.
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Cathy Nelson,
InStyle,
16 Jan. 2026
Since the shoulder seams unfasten under pressure, the armholes can't be used as makeshift nooses, either.
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Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
17 Dec. 2025
Noun
Sinker, four-seam (fastball), everything was good.
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Kansas City Star,
27 June 2026
Constructions are also enhanced with seam details like Ulla Johnson’s split-front pencil skirt.
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Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
24 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seam
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In May, the EEOC filed a discrimination lawsuit against the New York Times alleging discrimination against a white male employee, which the Times has rejected as politically motivated.
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After Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles, several people filed a lawsuit in July 2025 alleging authorities questioned them without justification.
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In addition to changing the lighting and painting the walls, Miranda-Martin prioritized the window treatments, with pinch pleat curtains from Ikea.
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The chic quarter-button front, preppy collar, and inverted back pleat add understated yet fashion-forward details, making this an easy, polished look prepared for whatever’s on the itinerary.
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Warner was confined to a walking boot, crutches and a scooter for six weeks after surgery to allow the bone to heal and the sutures to fully close.
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He was born with single suture sagittal craniosynostosis — a condition in which skull bones fuse too early in infancy, potentially causing problems with brain growth — and had six major surgeries by age 10.
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In April, when Rojas got news that his father had been rushed to the hospital, Roberts quickly took the decision on whether to play out of Rojas’ hands, scratching him from the lineup.
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New York scratched across two more runs in the 10th, taking advantage of another throwing error by Abreu after Rosario's sinking liner squirted out of his glove for an RBI single.
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Many of the residents moving to One, Two and Three Lights, inside the downtown loop around the Power & Light District, are relocating from outside Kansas City — often more than 75%, according to developer Cordish’s data.
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This connection between measurement and personalized learning then becomes a kind of positive feedback loop, where each feeds into the other.
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But when Las Vegas’s the Killers traded in the Anglophilia and new wave nostalgia of 2004’s Hot Fuss for the E Street Band grooves and Americana imagery of Sam’s Town, fans and critics were divided.
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Food particles and microorganisms can become trapped in the nicks, grooves, and scratches on the board.
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Fingerprints are the surface expression of what biologists call dermal ridges: those parallel corrugations of ridged and furrowed skin that cover not just your fingertips, but also your palms, toes and soles.
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So why do real grasshopper wings have corrugations?
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For example, educators at Mount Sinai are using AI scribe transcripts to analyze trainees’ communication skills and provide targeted feedback.
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An original spec from scribes Matt Mider and Kevin Burrows, the project landed at Universal in 2022.
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“Seam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seam. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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