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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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noun

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Verb
Three spinners was an overload on a seaming English-style morning and his batting unit promptly began a processional march back to the pavilion. Tim Ellis, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 In the lookbook the top is shown with a pair of olive drab pants with cargo pockets, seaming details and drawings for customization. Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
Noun
The walls are trimmed in cinderblock to protect from flaming debris blowing up against the seam where wall meets ground. Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025 Returning to the run game, Henry found a seam in the Pittsburgh defense and took a 44-yard run to the house that seemed to put Baltimore on easy street. Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for seam 
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  • Charles Kushner pleaded guilty in 2004 to filing false tax returns, retaliating against a witness and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decided an appeal filed by hemp company Northern Virginia Hemp and Agriculture and other plaintiffs challenging Virginia’s Senate Bill 903, a law regulating hemp products.
    Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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  • Get the recipe > Pork and Chive Dumplings Wrap, pleat, and boil a pot of dumplings—a symbol of wealth and prosperousness in China because of their resemblance to gold ingots—to invite good fortune in the year ahead.
    Megan Zhang, Saveur, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The jacket has curved flap design of the front pockets, a simplified buckle back and back pleats.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The internal brace procedure repairs the UCL and then reinforces it with a tape-like suture instead of fixing it through a full reconstruction like Tommy John, which replaces the existing ligament with a graft usually taken from the pitcher’s hamstring tendon.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Such attributes have attracted engineers wishing to devise synthetic imitations to advance tissue engineering, drug delivery systems, surgical sutures, biodegradable packaging and biosensors.
    Barrett Klein, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • For seeds with a hard seed coat, scraping them on 150-grit sandpaper scratches the seed coat enough to allow the seed to soak up or imbibe water.
    Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Many lawyers are also scratching their heads over Drake’s case.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • The one-mile loop is located in the East District and features educational signs informing visitors about the area’s history and its flora, an old homestead foundation, and a saguaro grove.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Glenn landed six more triple jumps, including three in combination, before her only real mistake — a fall on her triple loop late in the program.
    Dave Skretta, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Sure, Hurts will sometimes groove to a song during practice.
    Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Whether grooving to go-go classics or catching new talent, these stations honor the city’s rich musical heritage, keeping the pulse of D.C. alive, one song at a time.
    Essence, Essence, 17 Jan. 2025
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  • 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
  • Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is the lead writer for the series, with contributions from fellow scribes Ameir Brown, Insook Chappell, Harlan Davies and Yasmin Joseph.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
  • No charges have been made against Gaiman by authorities in the U.S., New Zealand or the American Gods scribe’s native UK as of yet.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Seam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seam. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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