sew up

as in to consume
to have complete control over sewed up the available openings so that no one else had a chance to play golf

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Recent Examples of sew up With neither candidate having sewed up a majority of delegates, the race came down to the undecided delegates. Caitlin Jewitt, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2024 Left field is probably sewn up by a certain Oakland native, but which former MVP should start in right? Fill out your all-time A’s lineup card by voting below for your choice to start at each of the nine positions. Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024 The left guard spot seems all but sewn up with Vorhees firmly entrenched. Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024 After 48 minutes, the sixth seed had the early lead sewn up, taking her first set point when Vekić failed to retrieve a forehand. George Ramsay, CNN, 3 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sew up 
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Verb
  • If necessary, vampire bats can gorge and consume four times their body weight in liquid.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Koalas spend most of their time sleeping and eating — consuming a diet mostly of eucalyptus leaves.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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  • Google is facing antitrust cases, alleging the company to monopolize the marketplace and the general search services.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In August, a federal judge ruled that Google had monopolized the online search engine market, concluding the Department of Justice’s anti-trust case against the tech giant.
    Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2024
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  • Loading your audio article SAN FRANCISCO — The Hayward man behind an iconic 2021 sideshow photograph has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for possessing guns that police found during a raid of his residence, court records show.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Later the process is reversed: Elizabeth possesses her son Jack to interact with her former lover.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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  • Australia’s defense spending exceeds the two-percent threshold and the country has big increases planned for the future, but defense experts in Australia have warned that these increases are all scheduled several years from now, which may be too late to deter Chinese belligerence in the near term.
    Michael Green, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The hallway also has an ironwork staircase leading upstairs and a stair opposite going down to the kitchen.
    Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 19 Nov. 2024

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“Sew up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sew%20up. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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