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to mark with or as if with a line or groove in fencing circles it is a mark of honor to have one's face seamed with saber cuts

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noun

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Recent Examples of seam
Verb
Rohit, India's captain, has had a rotten year with the bat, but was disciplined early against the seaming new ball. Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 Another nice detail: the center seam down the shirt’s back. Abbey Stone, SELF, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
Construction is premium: buttons are clicky, body has seams, and everything feels sturdy. Ben Sin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025 One unique feature of the ball gown was the outer layer was constructed to have no side seams. Shelby Wax, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seam
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seam
Verb
  • The lawsuit was initially filed against Meta — then called Facebook — in 2020, during Mr. Trump's first term, before being amended in 2021.
    Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • No charges were filed against Darvish as of April 13.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For Night Charades, a lot of the characters are dressed in clothing with a lot of pleats.
    Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Her look included a bra top and high-waist skirt with a pin pleat detail.
    Jackie Fields, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The mother required sutures for her head injuries, the LAPD said.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • This, too, is design performed with scalpel and sutures, and the scars don’t show.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Some people may have been scratching their heads when kids started screaming and crying after seeing a pig wearing a crown; With zombie pig men and skeleton archers riding spiders, why would this specific creature elicit such a guttural reaction?
    Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The Cougars had turnovers prior to that possession, but the fact that no shot went up near the final buzzer had many scratching their heads as to what Houston was thinking.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But for me, returning to Top Chef wasn’t about closing a loop or arriving at a conclusion.
    Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • In our test, which involves playing a YouTube video on a loop with the screen at full brightness, the phone lasted 16 hours and 6 minutes on a single charge.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The audience could be seen moving and grooving to the tune in a video shared from the set.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Getting people to think beyond grooving to the music is also the primary goal for Tendaji, a Trinidadian singer, songwriter, and music who bridges traditional calypso and modern soca.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The corrugation process guarantees that the containers are robust and lightweight, which is necessary for stacking and transportation in an efficient manner.
    CMG Containers, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • Electrons in today’s graphene can move up to a micrometer before getting scattered by imperfections, such as corrugations in the surface of the material or grain boundaries between adjacent crystal patches.
    Chun-Yung Sung, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2012
Verb
  • The story was conceived by Stranger Things creators, directors and executive producers Duffer Brothers, as well as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child scribe Jack Thorne and Stranger Things writer and co-executive producer Kate Trefry.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • And then the other thing that became my sort of unofficial job was scribe.
    Tonya Mosley, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Seam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seam. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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