seam
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Following news of his exit from Old Trafford, BBC Sport learned other counties would be interested in signing the seam bowler.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 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
This was the ninth time in seven Tests he has been lbw to a seam bowler, having fallen in similar fashion only three times in his previous 39 matches.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
While Robinson and Archer can operate as swing bowlers as well as bowling their more natural seam, this current group's variety comes more from their plans and their specific characteristics.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
My backpack was totally unsalvageable: With the seam blown out, the straps had failed as well.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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Its tight curves and angled seams recall aeronautic skins, giving the surface a sense of buzzing movement — an appropriate preview for what’s inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The team that brought New York the trophy it had spent a half-century waiting for is already coming apart at the seams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Reacting to the announcement, a prison officer told the BBC that they were "creaking at the seams" and that "delaying the releases until October could mean we simply run out of space".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
McElwee stitches together the past and present to find new meaning in their seams, a jagged line that runs through time and points toward the future.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Sefia ducked into the foreman’s office, running her hands over the floor, feeling for seams.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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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
There is a kind of rigor here in the wholly invented language that the actors persuasively speak while also somehow sporting chic, seamed trousers, manicured eyebrows and trimmed beards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
He described the mode as nothing personal to anybody but, simply, blocking out “all distractions. The more distractions, the faster that little seamed ball comes at you.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
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
A big-bellied, shambling hulk of a man, the sellsword had a seamed face crisscrossed with old scars.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
After the entire first day was washed out by rain, India chose to bat on a lively, seaming pitch and were dismissed for the third-lowest total in their Test history.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 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
The case goes from presser to the seaming machine.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst
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