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[seem] / sim /


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Khawaja has been supported by Warner and Chadd Sayers, a seam bowler who was part of the Australia squad on the 2018 tour of South Africa.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

When “Wild Horse Nine” begins with an aging CIA man describing President Kennedy’s assassination as a “success,” you know you’ve entered the onyx-black seam that is Martin McDonagh’s sense of humor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Five of Maiava’s first seven completions went to Kayden Dixon-Wyatt, one of which came on a 31-yard strike down the seam to the freshman, who reeled in a touchdown despite tight coverage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Their four-pronged seam attack hitting their straps after Joe Root had won the toss in Autumnal conditions.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

He spat on it and wiped away the dirt on the seam of his trousers and gave it to the boy.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

As richer veins have been depleted, thinner seams are dug, with more rock being ground up and more silica being released into the atmosphere surrounding the workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Hearts fell apart at the seams from there.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“You can’t just run up the field and create vertical seams — he’ll take advantage of that,” Rams edge rusher Byron Young said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Yet, here, there are no visible stitches, no scars or seams.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

By the time the girls burst into my room, frayed backpacks and old bucket purses busting at the seams, I was all ready to go.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Of those 10 dismissals in 2021-22, seven were from balls pitching 6-8m from the stumps - what is regarded as a 'good' length - and nine seamed away.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

Charlotte is always tightly seamed and belted, while Lisa, a filmmaker, wears bright colors and straddles the line between adventurous pop art flair and polished affluence.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

Many scenes play out in candlelight and leaping shadows, with Marius Panduru’s camera crawling close to seamed faces and veined forearms.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

It’s made of thin cotton/modal French terry, which is flat on one side and looped on the other—the robe has seamed, decorative panels that reveal both sides of the fabric.

From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2018

He was extremely thin, with shoulder- length white hair neatly combed beside a face so seamed and wrinkled, it hardly seemed real.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

But he only lasted seven balls, edging a seaming delivery into the safe hands of Marnus Labuschagne at third slip.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

Which makes the lack of upcoming Test cricket in the country all the more heartbreaking for fans of the swinging, seaming and spitting red ball.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

A seminal and comprehensive history; Times critic Bharati Mukherjee called Takaki’s method “extraordinary, seaming together meticulous scholarship, impassioned analysis, popular culture and personal memoir.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2021

The contoured silhouettes with intricate seaming, embroidery and couture detailing looked deceptively more expensive than their retail price.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2020

These are: adhesions of the meninges, thickening of the pia mater, congestion of the meninges, partial atrophy, centres of softening, seaming of the optic thalami, atrophy of the corpus callosum, etc.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Gina Lombroso


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