Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Longo said the primary concern is ensuring that the two parts of the bowel that surgeons have stitched together remain attached.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
With these encounters, Ms Kinsky nods to the waves of settlement that have stitched a score of migrant narratives into east London’s tattered fabric.
From Economist ● Jan. 18, 2018
In this way, Jaime Santana’s family have stitched together some of what happened one afternoon in April 2016, through his injuries, burnt clothing and, most of all, his shredded broad-brimmed straw hat.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2017
Medical workers in Aleppo, the photographer and videographer who documented the scenes and a surgeon who has taught nurses and doctors at local hospitals have stitched together details from that harrowing night.
From Time ● Aug. 26, 2016
He must have stitched on that button by himself—a button from an old Colonies uniform.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
