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embroider

[em-broi-der] / ɛmˈbrɔɪ dər /




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When those employees left, they had to learn how to screen-print and embroider themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Season 2 feels like much more of an ensemble affair as showrunner Tony Gilroy expands the show’s focus beyond one character’s moral development to more thoroughly embroider others that are just as worthwhile.

From Salon Apr. 22, 2025

According to legend, Tyre is the place where purple pigment was first created - the dye crushed out of snail shells to embroider royal robes.

From BBC Nov. 7, 2024

The family leader in Manson’s absence, she helped embroider an elaborate ceremonial vest for him, weaving in her own red locks.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2024

“I’m going to embroider hearts into my husband’s clothes when I mend them. Because I’ll love him so much!”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

At the same workshop, Getu Derza, 48, carefully embroiders colourful silk threads into intricate patterns.

From Barron's Oct. 15, 2025

Erick Medel embroiders denim with an industrial sewing machine, making works that touch on everyday life in Los Angeles, particularly those living and working in Boyle Heights and the city’s Eastside.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2024

The supplier embroiders school logos in-house on a range of products including jumpers, sweatshirts, polo shirts and school bags.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2023

The New York artist Rachel Rossin is as much a programmer as a painter, and her exhibition embroiders the boundaries around “the human” with knowing reverence.

From New York Times Aug. 3, 2023

Gisa embroiders at the table, making something beautiful and exquisite and entirely beyond my comprehension.

From "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard

After spending $40 more, I eventually walked away with two cute plushies—a fuzzy chicken leg with a penguin face and a purple tea cup with a smiley face embroidered on its side—and my dignity intact.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

They might improve dinner—herbs, honey, good bread, something pickled—or have nothing to do with it: flowers, jam, a spice blend, a VHS tape, an embroidered denim vest.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

The artefact, almost 1,000 years old, is a 70m-long storyboard of embroidered pictures showing an epic account of the Norman conquest and the Battle of Hastings of 1066.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Municipal Softball League: The Feeneys’ jerseys featured black patches embroidered with “JBK” for Jamie Bailey Krug, the first of the original founders to make it back to home base in the sky.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

The jacket was the first thing I’d been given that was mine indefinitely, with my name embroidered in gold inside the collar.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Kit men spent the 24 hours before Argentina faced England embroidering those shirts with numbers and the national crest.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

The mother-of-two said she works all day sewing clothes and embroidering but she can't afford baby formula for her youngest.

From Barron's Apr. 30, 2026

An A-line grey wool collarless coat had pink peonies of varying sizes splashed over it, while a shorter white wool cape was adorned with similar detailed pink and yellow peony embroidering.

From Seattle Times Feb. 12, 2024

The changes didn’t just happen, like the snow embroidering the Rockies in winter, or the runoff that swells Colorado’s icy rivers in the spring.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2023

She might be mending or ironing but most likely she’d be sitting by the window embroidering.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz




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