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Recent Examples of suture
Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
This project investigates the design and use of miniature passive differential mechanisms, such as pulleys and links, as implants to attach the muscles and tendons in place of the direct suture.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2018
Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
And when Jay Rubin translated The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995), roughly 25,000 words were left on the cutting-room floor, while hefty structural changes were required to suture the remaining text together.
—Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Verb
The weak spot is closed and strengthened with sutures (herniorrhaphy procedure) or synthetic mesh (hernioplasty procedure).23
Esophageal Myotomy
This procedure, also called Heller myotomy, treats achalasia, a motility disorder of the esophagus, caused by the lower esophageal sphincter.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
This project investigates the design and use of miniature passive differential mechanisms, such as pulleys and links, as implants to attach the muscles and tendons in place of the direct suture.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2018
Noun
Doctors still will need to practice sawing into bone and suturing muscles.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
And when Jay Rubin translated The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995), roughly 25,000 words were left on the cutting-room floor, while hefty structural changes were required to suture the remaining text together.
—Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suture
Verb
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They can be dropped into any campaign, though there are frameworks available in the book for those groups that want to stitch these stories together.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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In one image from the Cowboy Carter tour book, Beyoncé is pictured sitting at a sewing machine while stitching the American flag, in tribute to Grace Wisher, a Black girl who helped sew the original Star-Spangled Banner.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
19 July 2025
Noun
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Engram’s got the ability to stretch the field up the sideline and the seam, but also to be an easy target underneath defenses.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
25 July 2025
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While the amount of roughness is important, the placement of seams and surface texture can also affect a ball’s reliability in the air.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
25 July 2025
Noun
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On the evening of Wednesday, July 23, the couple was on a 35-foot boat on the Niagara River when witnesses saw the vessel crash into a concrete abutment at around 9:38 p.m. local time, according to authorities.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
28 July 2025
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In Turkey, for instance, the cost for a single dental implant, including the abutment (the connector piece) and the final crown, can range from $850 to $1,200.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
18 July 2025
Noun
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Everyone has a different threshold for trust based on their past experiences, attachment patterns and childhood.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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The epilator has nine attachment caps, including a bikini trimmer, electric shaver head, body exfoliation brush, cleansing brush, and even a foot file, providing great value for the price.—
Malia Griggs,
Glamour,
30 July 2025
Noun
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In fact, his improvisatory, playful articulation of postmodernism could itself be considered an ad hoc exercise, applied in the arena of symbolic language rather than that of practical assembly.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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The gimbal supports a straight down (-90-degree) to slightly up (20-degree) articulation, which is less upward tilt than the DJI Neo (60 degrees) or the Flip (35 degrees).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Suture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suture. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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