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as in web
usually meshes plural
something that catches and holds
a routine request that got hung up in the meshes of the state bureaucracy
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as in netting
a fabric made of strands loosely twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals
spread a mesh across the doorway to keep out insects
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as in to trap
to catch or hold as if in a net
dolphins sometimes become meshed in fishnets
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Recent Examples of mesh
Jeff Cox, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
Push the curd through a fine mesh strainer, put it into a jar and refrigerate until needed.
—Martin Sorge, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2025
What started with one video during the 2019 playoffs, to mark his first trip to Arrowhead Stadium, has evolved into a catalog of dozens of parodies, three original songs about his favorite team and a growing fan base where country music lovers mesh with dedicated Chiefs fans.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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Noun
More immediately, Bank of America’s forecast pretty much meshes with the Dow Jones outlook for January CPI: a monthly increase of 0.3% for the all-items index and a 12-month inflation rate of 2.9%, the latter the same as December.
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The Wolves could choose to merely refine their roster, or maintain the status quo and allow the current pieces more time to mesh in the hopes things click and the team ascends to new heights by season’s end.
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Among the many reasons the legal drama has fascinated Hollywood is the tangling web of relationships among the major players in the litigation.—
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Breaking free from this web requires not just brute force but precise, intelligent tools.—
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In the first three months of the war, the archive collected dreams featuring air raids, fireworks, Molotov cocktails, shells, guns, railway stations, debris, drones, soldiers, bunkers, planes, concrete blockades, loudspeakers, camouflage netting, alarm backpacks, Telegram and Signal networks.—
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Another row of six towers and netting, some of them 130-feet-tall, just beyond the existing structures and running for about 260 feet along Edgewood Road.—
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Major American investors, including Trump allies, are involved with companies prospecting nickel, iron and rare earth elements, even though much of it is trapped far under frozen ground or ice (in some parts of Greenland, the ice is two miles thick).—
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Many states have regulations or laws about trapping and releasing feral swine, for example, in order to help reduce the spread.—
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Why isn’t there space for an organic unfurling, a messy tangle of threads that overlap and deviate?—
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Figuring out why tangles are so tricky could help scientists predict when people’s snap judgments about a physical situation are likely to be wrong, leading to unsafe reactions.—
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Pettersson missed the net during a two-on-one chance in OT.—
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Finally, the fourth neural net worked as an associative layer and predicted the output of the previous three at every time step.—
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“Mesh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mesh. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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