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swatch

[swoch] / swɒtʃ /
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Grooms have shown Boston-based wedding planner Keri Ketterer Walter a specific tartan, a herringbone fabric swatch and “wallpaper that kind of looked like the scales of a trout” for decor inspiration, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Marshall recently screened a broad swatch of equities and found 25 stocks that have preannounced at least five times in January since 2011.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

The prestige TV age is the product of creators willing to play with the rules of physics in unexpected ways, thanks to the man who made a broader swatch of the small screen seductively Lynchian.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2025

Middleton was able to fill in several of the squares that surrounded the space where the No. 44 card’s swatch would go.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

It happened again: a swatch of pale light, like a shadow made of moonlight, darting through the dark toward the woods.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

During papal assignments, he submits possible designs and fabric swatches to the Vatican office that organises masses and other papal celebrations, the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Of those, 14 are fully painted, 10 are in varying stages of completion, seven are covered in paint swatches and two are haphazardly skim-coated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

There is only one highway into Enga Province and Care Australia said debris had fallen across large swatches of the road, limiting access to the rescue site.

From BBC ● May 26, 2024

On her worktable lay swatches of the silk and Lurex she would soon use to render her paintings and drawings into textiles.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024

She has swatches of colors and samples of flowers.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper



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