mending
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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
There’s a tension in his art, between fracture and mending, destruction and creation, that holds out a promise of rebirth and lends humble forms outsize power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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
But the Mandelson mess makes mending what's been done that much harder.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
I tore out the knee of my pants and had to make do with the wrong color thread for mending.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
On the last three days of his stay he did me the honor to leave his coat out, declaring that my mendings had made it presentable before an emperor.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
Pleading imperative feminine mendings, she stayed at home this afternoon.
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
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 Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
The tire was already somewhat of a patched affair, bearing evidences of former punctures and mendings.
From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Ruel Perley Smith
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 Kate Dickinson Sweetser
