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Recent Examples of pleat
Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
The dress featured a V neckline and pronounced pleating on the skirt.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 4 Sep. 2024
Julia Teti, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025
The pants have a high waist, functional pockets, and flattering pleats.
—Nicol Natale, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Dumpling-making was also very much a joint effort, with her father rolling the homemade dough wrappers, most everyone else filling and pleating them and her mom handling the cooking.
—Noun
The look featured a camel hair, four-bar classic sport coat, which coordinated to the single pleat four-bar trousers.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleat
Verb
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The solution is simple: Vary the height and position of your ponytail or braid slightly each time.—
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Mayers was dressed in a grey suit with his hair braided and kept a straight face, at times reclining back in his chair during the opening of the trial.—
Noun
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Lawrence also wore her hair in thick plaits, and donned a pair of orange lensed, oval sunglasses.—
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The classic, super-long plait was just as polished.—
Noun
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If skiing isn’t your thing, the resort is still a haven for winter activity: ice skate across Brewer’s Pond, located in the heart of the village, go tubing at Tube Town, or fat bike or snowshoe on a variety of trails and loops that skirt the edge of the ski hill.—
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Conveniently located inside the I-435 loop, this close-in development offers easy access to major highways.—
Noun
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When the nanny and the husband engage in an affair, the pregnant wife gets wise, and everything starts coming apart at the seams for all involved.—
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For the occasion Hailey wore a monochromatic ensemble consisting of a black sweater with a center seam and a pair of wide-leg trousers elongated with pointed-toe black boots.—
Noun
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The corrugation process guarantees that the containers are robust and lightweight, which is necessary for stacking and transportation in an efficient manner.—
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Electrons in today’s graphene can move up to a micrometer before getting scattered by imperfections, such as corrugations in the surface of the material or grain boundaries between adjacent crystal patches.—
Noun
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What the studies found Trials included people with acute pain after two types of surgery—bunion removal and tummy tucks—that represented two major types of pain-generating injury: to bone and soft tissues, respectively.—
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Patients who had undergone either tummy tucks or bunion surgery were given either suzetrigine every 12 hours; an opioid, hydrocodone, plus Tylenol every six hours; or a placebo for 48 hours after the operations.—
Noun
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As AIs continue to advance, the need for code in the middleware layer diminishes.—
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The researchers tracked the movement of iron, sodium and hydrogen, using these elements to track winds in the deep, middle and shallow layers of WASP-121 b's atmosphere.—
Noun
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Nothing really pulls or puckers, which is difficult to achieve on this type of build.—
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These compounds, which look like rings at the molecular level, interact with proteins in your saliva to produce a dry, astringent sensation that makes your mouth pucker.—
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“Pleat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleat. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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