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to mark with or as if with a line or groove in fencing circles it is a mark of honor to have one's face seamed with saber cuts

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seam

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noun

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Verb
Rohit, India's captain, has had a rotten year with the bat, but was disciplined early against the seaming new ball. Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 Another nice detail: the center seam down the shirt’s back. Abbey Stone, SELF, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
Construction is premium: buttons are clicky, body has seams, and everything feels sturdy. Ben Sin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025 One unique feature of the ball gown was the outer layer was constructed to have no side seams. Shelby Wax, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seam
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Verb
  • Barba was released following the arrest on condition of home detention, an order filed Tuesday in a New Jersey district court revealed.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Shares in Donald Trump's social media company sank in morning trading on Wednesday, a day after the company filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could allow the president's trust to sell more than $2 billion of shares.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Bonus: The unique pleats add a stylish flair to the otherwise relaxed tank.
    Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Tubular structures framed the models’ faces and encircled their hips, creating the illusion of exaggerated proportions, while pleats unfolded like corollas.
    Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The woman required sutures for injuries to her head.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Every three minutes, for weeks on end, a caregiver carefully, dispassionately sinks needles deep into the sutures on each finger, drawing blood, to prevent the fingertips from rotting off.
    Victoria Kim, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • By March 4, some 153 of the facilities managed to reopen as charities scratched together money, according to Ajyal Sultany, head of communications for WHO in Kabul.
    Khwaga Ghani, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
  • While anyone can enjoy listening to albums or 45s on the go, KORG also includes a wide range of features aimed at DJs, including playback speed adjustment, a beat looper (which gives the ability to layer scratches over a beat loop), filters, a fader and delay effects.
    Brad Moon, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The high-rise jeans hit right at the ankle and are designed with pockets, a zipper fly, and belt loops.
    Amy Schulman, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Orange loops show where the eclipse begins or ends at sunrise and sunset.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Now, a few months away from his 63rd birthday, Cox is a tastemaker with an authoritative ear who makes audiences groove.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Snow sings about getting her princess groove back, butts heads with her Evil Queen stepmother (a campy Gal Gadot) and gets a little help from her short new friends.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • And then the other thing that became my sort of unofficial job was scribe.
    Tonya Mosley, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Rob Roy, This Boys Life and Memphis Belle director Michael Caton-Jones is set to helm Eternity from scribes King Orba and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer with a story from Orba.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Seam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seam. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.

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