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Recent Examples of pleachPool Garden Linden trees are pleached and underplanted with liriope, while boxwood hedges frame pink annuals.—Owen Holmes, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
If your stylist is plaiting your hair too tightly, be vocal and ask them to ease up.
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Annie Blay-Tettey,
Allure,
24 June 2025
The various story strands are plaited together so neatly as to become a single braid, with an emphasis on how much these lives interlock as the shelter inmates support each other.
In addition to a different date, the city is looking at a more favorable financial arrangement and speeding up the setup and breakdown times for the temporary race course, which plies a 12-turn, 2.2-mile circuit through Grant Park, down DuSable Lake Shore Drive and up Michigan Avenue.
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Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
18 July 2025
During the golden age of ocean liners in the early 20th century, dozens of vessels plied these sea-lanes.
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