mending

He promised to give priority to growth by holding the line on taxes, trimming spending, lifting barriers to infrastructure and housing, and mending relations with the European Union.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

"You don't get many people mending raw cashmere," said Wade, whose role is to meticulously inspect and darn any defects in the fabric by hand, before it is washed, cut and shipped around the world.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

With the Canada-US trade relationship increasingly unpredictable, Canada is seeking to bolster ties elsewhere, in some cases mending strained ties.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

Then there was Mend Piece: “While you mend | think of mending the world.”

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2025

We stopped for a handful of days because there was a good wainwright there, and nearly all our wagons needed tending or mending of some sort.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Had she not clothes enough to last her with patient mendings and persistent remakings for two years?

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various

For what are coarse material mendings to the æsthetic soul yearning after the infinite, and worshipping at the feet of the prophet?

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

The approach was like a turnpike road full of great ruts, clumsy mendings; bordered by trampled edges and incursions upon the grass at pleasure. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas

At two she made a little toilette for dinner, and was employed on numberless household darnings and mendings in the long evenings while her sisters giggled over the jingling piano.

From Boys and girls from Thackeray by Sweetser, Kate Dickinson

Their pieces of clothing appear like new mendings on old rags, or like a substantial shawl thrown over scanty vestments.

From The Delight Makers by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse