weave
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To get a full picture of Aidan’s health history, a clinician had to pore through paper records, relying on memory to weave disparate facts together.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
The other is its parish, the spiritual center of this Cambridgeshire hamlet and a place where community members weave themselves in each other’s lives while supporting its rectors.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026
Odegaard has suffered a couple of indifferent seasons, largely blighted by injury, but possesses a rare ability to weave his way through opposition defences as well as picking out the perfect pass.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Trying to weave together an impossible number of threads means some moments stick out sloppily, like a character’s reveal of a magically healed wound we never knew they had.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
We weave between people, dodging bicycles, babies in strollers, and old folks taking their sweet time.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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Elon Green weaves the mystery’s disparate threads into a single, unforgettable narrative.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The author was inspired to investigate our country’s aging population when she cared for a grandmother who died from COVID; the book weaves the personal with the political in a meaningful way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The Feels is an IRL singles event that weaves meditation, talking prompts and somatic exercises to help participants connect on a deeper level.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
A new species of spider which weaves a catapult-like silk trap to snare a single type of ant has been discovered in the remote rainforests of northern Australia.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
I don’t even know if she would like me wearing wigs, or weaves, as Donna calls them, because I never so much as had braid extensions.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
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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
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
To pass the time, they weaved bracelets and rings out of plastic bags and talked about their homeland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
City weaved their way out from facing Liverpool pressure near a corner flag at their own end of the pitch with a glorious sequence of passes from back to front.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025
Sefia shrugged her pack higher on her shoulders, feeling the weight thump against the small of her back, and weaved seamlessly into the crowd.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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At a recent performance of his Valiant symphony in Chennai, he explained how he wove Schubert's Unfinished Symphony into Idhayam Pogudhey, a song from the 1979 Tamil film Puthiya Vaarpukkal.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 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
The dancers wove through the crowd as others clapped along in raucous celebration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
John Cheever’s short stories wove threads of fable-like fantasy into memorable tales of midcentury Americans grappling with love and loneliness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
I gathered some of the tall grasses and wove them into a crude net.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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For now, the humble paper check remains too deeply woven into the fabric of American life to truly rest in peace — even if writing one means playing a riskier game with swindlers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Ayurveda is trusted by millions, backed by government-funded medical colleges and deeply woven into everyday life.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Under a chaotic canopy woven with vines and studded with fearsome spiked stems, the group crossed streams, waded through mud and picked off dozens of leeches.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Telephone Hill’s history is woven into the city’s identity, from its 1880s use as a Navy outpost to housing Alaska’s first commercial telephone company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
The walls are painted a cheerful yellow, and a brightly colored woven blanket is draped over the back of the couch.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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They settled on Ronnie Wood, a former member of the Faces who, ever since then, has engaged in the ancient art of guitar weaving with Keith Richards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
In the team's latest work, the newly identified superconductors, YRu3B2 and LuRu3B2, owe their properties to electrons forming flat bands within a kagome lattice, a geometric arrangement inspired by traditional Japanese basket weaving patterns.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
So you are running too now, dodging and weaving past all the rubes who haven’t yet figured out the score.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
The series’ first film is its strongest, weaving together overarching parodies of “Scream” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer” alongside brief send-ups of popular horror films.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
As a seamstress, Betty spent much of her time spinning thread, weaving cloth, and tailoring clothes for the Washington family.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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