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unstitch

  • a word derived from stitch.
    stitch
    noun
    one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.

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Although in the strictest sense she has written both novels and memoirs, her books unstitch our sense of genre, leaving us with threads and messy seams rather than tidy garments.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022

“Typically, the physical and the biological worlds are stitched together outside, and it’s really difficult to unstitch them, understand the dynamics and stitch them back together,” Adams says.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 6, 2019

“A poet — as distinct from other, perhaps more persuasive, kinds of writers — can only unstitch the weave of tangled threads. Poems are meant to complicate our sense of things, not pamper them.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2018

Downing Street believes that a declaration by EU leaders, plus supportive statements from the main leaders in the European parliament, will make it difficult to unstitch a deal.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2016

Beneath this representation was printed the following: You may break, but never unstitch it.

From The Quest by Isaac Goldberg