- present participle of stitch.
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Morgan analyst Tien-Tsin Huang asked about the deals on the earnings call, saying that the combined effort seemed to come with “above-average risk … because you’re stitching together the three assets.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
It may well be true that stitching multicultural communities together requires us to be more curious, inclusive neighbors.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
He points out that visible stitching is a key component in the design of many fashionable garments, perhaps most famously jeans.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Robbins says she learned to operate industrial sewing machines, which stitch much faster than home machines, create blind hems where the stitching is essentially invisible, and can cuff a blazer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
A crow, startled by my small commotion, alighted from a branch to the right, cawing his displeasure, a staccato of anxiety stitching the night a darker blue.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
But that jacket gets mere seconds of airtime before it is on to the next jacket, blue, featuring whimsical stitchings of houses, a garment she describes as reminiscent of something you’d find at Anthropologie.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026
While recuperating from the operation, Morrow began embroidering, producing semiabstract stitchings of body parts and shapes that are grouped together on one wall.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021
His white gloves had curious stitchings on the back not common in England, and his silk hat, exceedingly glossy, had wider brims than are usually associated with Bond Street.
From Havoc by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Cut between these, leaving two stitchings each side of the hole.
From Things Mother Used to Make by Gurney, Lydia Maria
She tripped ahead in a solid but elegant pair of walking-shoes and was drawing on a tan glove with mannish stitchings over the back.
From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake
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