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textile

[teks-tahyl, -til] / ˈtɛks taɪl, -tɪl /
NOUN
fabric
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While studying management to help his family's textile business, he attended an aviation seminar and caught what he later called the "aviation bug".

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

In each workshop, Ingold encourages students to use discarded textile material to make art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Crews were also called to a blaze there in July 2025 and there was a major fire that destroyed a significant part of the former textile mill in 2022.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The name is a nod to the women’s suffrage movement and was popularized by a 1912 textile industry strike in Lawrence, Mass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Mealtime portions in the farm’s cafeteria were no larger than at the cement factory, the textile mill, or the mines.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Employment losses can also be more pronounced in labor-intensive industries such as textiles and apparel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The EU's trade enforcement chief, Denis Redonnet, said sectors facing "sustained and abnormal" import increases included machinery, textiles, basic metals and chemicals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

While AI plays might be back in vogue, utilities have struggled, as have consumer discretionary stocks, including names tied to automobile components, textiles and luxury goods, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

India's exports to the US include electronics, pharmaceuticals, machinery, jewellery, chemicals, textiles and petroleum products.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

They lived in the same high-rise where they’d raised Barack, in a small apartment decorated with Indonesian textiles that Ann had sent home over the years.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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