- present participle of mend.
mending
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Parker has been mending rifts professionally for 25 years, but she insists that her skill set shouldn’t be special.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He promised to give priority to growth by holding the line on taxes, trimming spending, lifting barriers to infrastructure and housing, and mending relations with the European Union.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
"You don't get many people mending raw cashmere," said Wade, whose role is to meticulously inspect and darn any defects in the fabric by hand, before it is washed, cut and shipped around the world.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
But the Mandelson mess makes mending what's been done that much harder.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
“You’re not mending a rip in your father’s trousers. People are paying good money—” “I know how to sew,” I blurt.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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For what are coarse material mendings to the æsthetic soul yearning after the infinite, and worshipping at the feet of the prophet?
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
Had she not clothes enough to last her with patient mendings and persistent remakings for two years?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various
Fence and equipment mendings, cutting ice from ponds and rivers, chopping wood, and grubbing up trees all had a part in his busy life.
From Frying Pan Farm by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Amongst his various mendings of old shoes at Callerton.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
On the last three days of his stay he did me the honor to leave his coat out, declaring that my mendings had made it presentable before an emperor.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman