mending

Whether mending broken ties with county supervisors or striving to avoid antagonizing government agencies, journalists and accountability bodies, Luna says he has spent much of his tenure rebuilding trust and connections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

But visible mending is about celebrating that choice.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

One of the biggest stars of the era was Shirley Temple, a sweet, ringleted child who comforted audiences by mending rifts in families and melting the hearts of tough guys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 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

I started to point out that her knee was still mending and that she’d need me for at least another week.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Amongst his various mendings of old shoes at Callerton. 

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

Evidently the system of upkeep in vogue was the system employed in the case of Trishkin's coat—the system of cutting up the cuffs and the collar into mendings for the elbows.

From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth

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

All my makings and mendings and turnings are done at home by a clever little workwoman, under my own superintendance, and I am most careful and economical.

From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Helen C. Black

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 Thomas Hardy