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textile

[teks-tahyl, -til] / ˈtɛks taɪl, -tɪl /
NOUN
fabric
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Crews were also called to a blaze there in July 2025 and there was a major fire that destroyed a significant part of the former textile mill in 2022.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

The name is a nod to the women’s suffrage movement and was popularized by a 1912 textile industry strike in Lawrence, Mass.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Like other fast-fashion giants including H&M and Zara, Shein has faced allegations of underpaying and overworking textile workers at its factories.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

They also include various paper, textile and electronic products.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

A Labor Day textile workers’ strike in North Carolina quickly spread across the South and up the Eastern Seaboard.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell

Inside her bedroom, the rich red complements a wooden-and-woven bed frame found on Facebook Marketplace and textiles she’s collected from trips to Guatemala and Morocco.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

By studying how the fabric's geometry and material properties influenced this snap-through behavior, the team determined the physical conditions that allow knitted textiles to become multistable.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

Hengli eventually expanded into other textiles, including polyester, which required petroleum-based raw materials such as purified terephthalic acid that China imported from abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

They sold gold, ivory and ultimately enslaved Africans, often those captured in local conflicts, in exchange for the manufactured goods brought mainly by the British and Dutch, including textiles, alcohol and guns.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

She admires the material of his mother’s sari, mentioning that her mother curates textiles at the Met.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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