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stitch

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verb

as in to suture
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches the doctor stitched the wound so adroitly that the scar was barely visible after the stitches were removed

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Recent Examples of stitch
Noun
There is always someone willing to teach new or complicated stitches, Bodle said. Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025 At its best, often spiked by gleefully gratuitous gore, this very tall Texas tale trades in a kind of snarky absurdism likely to leave suitably jaded viewers in stitches. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
The software stitches these together so give a higher-fidelity picture than any single sensor can provide. David Hambling, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 The ornate dress was stitched with Western wear-nodding paisley pattern evocative of a bandana. Julia Teti, WWD, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stitch
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stitch
Noun
  • Strep throat can cause symptoms like severe sore throat, sudden fever, and body aches.
    Sarah Hudgens, Health, 27 Feb. 2025
  • People of all ages can fall sick with the bug, which typically begins with the victim suffering from stomach pain, fever, and body aches.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Noun
  • But the Heat remains without Alec Burks (lower back pain), Josh Christopher (G League), Nikola Jovic (broken right hand) and Dru Smith (left Achilles surgery) against the Bulls.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Symptoms are akin to getting the flu: body aches, fever, abdominal pain.
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Taurasi’s legacy will forever be sewn into the fabric of the Mercury.
    Ben Pickman, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
  • In 2021, Fink's group successfully created the first fiber, sewn into a shirt, with the ability to digitally sense, store, and analyze a person's activity.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Rosie O'Donnell encourages Americans to 'protect your sanity' Although the Emmy-winning host has been enjoying the warm reception from her Irish neighbors, O'Donnell also shared the pangs of homesickness she's been experiencing.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
  • There’s a romantic pang to these characters not quite reaching their full potential.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • For now, locals will be repairing the damage—and wondering what is in store for them.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In this filme, based on the novel by Philip Beard, Sink’s Tess tries to repair her relationship with her drug-dealing biological father Nick (Theo Rossi) after the tragic death of her younger half-sister.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That tingle of anxiety will become an old friend, and the feeling of having triumphed over fear will become equally familiar, if not more familiar, than the fear itself.
    Essence, Essence, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Feeling that glimpse, at my luckiest moments, as an electric tingle racing the length of my spine.
    Leath Tonino, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Much like government employees being cut from the system, teachers and unions nationwide could feel the sting.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Our community’s outpouring of support definitely tempered the sting of what happened that morning.
    Kimberly Wargo, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2025

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“Stitch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stitch. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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