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Recent Examples of suture
Kayla Greaves, Essence, 26 Sep. 2024
That’s because a repair involves suturing the tear.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Victoria Kim, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
And every instrument—scalpel, suture, gown, drape, and glove—was often plastic.
—Bill Frist, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Verb
But how well that scar heals is largely based on your doctor’s suturing technique.
—Kayla Greaves, Essence, 26 Sep. 2024
That’s because a repair involves suturing the tear.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Noun
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
And every instrument—scalpel, suture, gown, drape, and glove—was often plastic.
—Bill Frist, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suture
Verb
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Advanced tools built on AI can crawl the web, stitch content together and send it back to us.—
Deepa Nagraj,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Polidori family arrived at McGregor Square in downtown Denver on the day of the April 4 Colorado Rockies home opener decked in team gear and jackets with the logo of their company, Polidori Sausage, stitched on the front.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Walker’s velocity was down a tick across the board, with his four seam fastball 2.2 mph slower than his average.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2025
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Place loin seam side down on a rimmed baking sheet; brush evenly with mustard.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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So far, as Yon reports, there are only abutments, but soon there will be a span over water.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
6 Jan. 2025
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An abutment, or a connecting structure, is placed on top of or built into the implant to connect it to the replacement tooth (called a crown).—
Laura Schober,
Health,
1 Aug. 2024
Noun
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Danielle uses a handheld grater, but the grater attachment on a food processor makes quick work of grating a lot of carrots.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Apr. 2025
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So there's this emotional attachment to those stories, which is still with me today.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Speech therapy: Speech therapy can help people with mild autism who have challenges with language comprehension, articulation, or pragmatic skills.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
22 Apr. 2025
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The hand scene was really a kind of articulation for me of this idea that sometimes our bodies know best.—
Anaja I. Smith,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Suture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suture. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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