weave
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Cotton and linen are often comfortable because they absorb moisture and allow air movement, although fabric weave, thickness and moisture handling also matter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The smell of rubbish hangs heavy in the air as pickup trucks and handcarts crawl through narrow alleyways, unloading the day's collections while children weave between them chasing footballs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
The early pages of “People Watching” weave Sonny’s perspective with brief sketches of her fellow resort-goers, which usually open with godlike authority: “Allana was ten feet tall and beautiful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Around 2023, drone makers supplying Ukrainian forces ramped up development of AI to lock onto targets, while commanders began to weave it into targeting systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Vaucanson not only made a mechanical duck, he also devised a machine that would automatically weave brocades.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Pondering these points of analysis, the preface weaves in studio photographs, Kodak snaps and paintings by Jan van Eyck, Bronzino and Titian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
That would break the spell Miyazaki weaves in every frame leading up to that moment.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Elon Green weaves the mystery’s disparate threads into a single, unforgettable narrative.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
He weaves the stories together with musicians from perennially imperiled New Orleans performing for his interviewees at a “welcome table” on a levee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
The boat weaves in and out between countless tiny islands, some with small brightly painted wooden houses on them, but many with not a house or a tree on the bare rocks.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
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Governments are so in awe of the tales weaved by tech bros about the coming artificial-intelligence future, she says, that they have given them a free pass to do pretty much whatever they want.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
“Before the incident, students routinely weaved through multiple lanes of traffic to access parked cars or to make their way to parents picking them up,” the suit reads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
Back in India, the naan weaved its way into colonial cuisine, as it began being paired with cured meats or sauces infused with local spices.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Reiner bobbed and weaved and, in the process of entertaining himself, directed at least one of everyone’s favorite movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
But she weaved through the aisles, ducking to avoid the rain, and on the hunt for a peculiar plant that would most likely be hidden from display.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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He was one of the few who wove what was happening in the country into his material.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
He wove stories and theories out of raw data and observation while remaining, at core, an economist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Directors Raja Feather Kelly and Zack Winokur wove the scenes together with a choreographic sensibility that defined moments in time as well as its inexorable passage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
After just four overs from the quicks, the spinners took centre stage and wove a web around the Sri Lankan batters, much as they had throughout the tour.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
Capron also wove the sisters’ revelations into existing ideas set forth by yet another man, the well-known clairvoyant lecturer Andrew Jackson Davis, known as the “Poughkeepsie Seer.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Parton's image is similarly woven into public minds: always camp, always glamorous, always smiling and always kind.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The harsh realities of war are woven into the textures of everyday life, warping and fraying into something absurd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Reflecting on my childhood, I can see creativity woven into my family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
But I have somehow assembled enough glittering people and enough secondhand objects — a woven rug, cushions, low tables, an impossible number of candles — that it feels like a tiny seventh-floor pop-up restaurant.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
I sat it on the windowsill to dry, along with my bracelet Doc had woven back together after I saved the wolf.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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“Invitation” is an achievement in dance for cinema, freed from the spatial and temporal limits of live performance, weaving stories without dialogue, lyrics, or narration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I frequently struggle to find the right words to describe the elements weaving together the concrete and the conceptual, so I find it simpler to sum up all that as magic.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
The superintendent himself served as the master of ceremonies, with performers weaving around him, cameos by celebrities, and slide projections and film sequences appearing on cue to supplement his applause and laugh lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
In the group stages, Kerim Alajbegovic's goal for Bosnia-Herzegovina against Qatar was a superb solo effort - a weaving run before a rising right-foot shot of high class.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The curling iron continues up until it curls back into itself, weaving in and out amongst the other curls, giving it the cage-like effect.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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