- present participle of stitch.
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As a result, its surface is uneven, with holes, patches and the three-dimensional effects of the stitching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Their tattered remnants, barely held together with patches and stitching, are poignant metaphors for a battered will that keeps fighting even as protections wear thin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
“Miss Meg March, one letter and a glove,” continued Beth, delivering the articles to her sister, who sat near her mother, stitching wristbands.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
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 Henry Blake Fuller
No; larger cushions with no rough gold in stitchings.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Gordon Bottomley
Already I am considering a silk-lined cape, and it is settled that my gloves are to have black stitchings.
From Not that it Matters by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
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