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wove

American  
[wohv] / woʊv /

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of weave.

wove British  
/ wəʊv /

verb

  1. a past tense of weave

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After just four overs from the quicks, the spinners took centre stage and wove a web around the Sri Lankan batters, much as they had throughout the tour.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

“ChatGPT thus wove Stein-Erik’s suspicions about his mother into the broader paranoid narrative it constructed for him,” the lawsuit states.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

He studied their individual tics and mannerisms to find the things that people across the world might only note subconsciously, and wove them into his caricatures.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2025

Stone wove drum machines into the dense thickets of sound.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

He wove around the bodies of Greek and Roman demigods.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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