fabric

1
as in cloth
a woven or knitted material (as of cotton or nylon) a fabric that is supposed to repel rain while at the same time allowing the wearer's perspiration to escape

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as in structure
the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form you can't expect the fabric of society to survive if you do away with all moral imperatives

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Recent Examples of fabric One web company, Meta, has explored Ethernet fabrics for AI clusters as well as InfiniBand, an alternative networking standard pioneered partly by Mellanox, a networking hardware maker that Nvidia acquired for $7 billion in 2020. Jordan Novet, CNBC, 14 May 2025 The breathable fabric is Oeko-Tex certified and feels crisp yet soft. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 14 May 2025 The funds will be used develop new products and fabrics, according to the startup. Ardian Wibisono, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 The Dodger The Dodger is a straight-leg jean, with a comfortable high rise, and semi-rigid fabric. Caroline Griswold, Vogue, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for fabric
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  • Finally, a country where the women were wearing enough cloth, and where the wind persisted in exposing the tips of their ears.
    Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
  • Microfiber cloths with a material-specific cleaning product.
    Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 May 2025
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  • As the sun sets on century-old structures and the dirt gives way to bulldozers for a multimillion-dollar rebuild, Pimlico Race Course hosted an exciting 150th Preakness Stakes on Saturday.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2025
  • While there is no way for an AI assistant to replace a genuine human connection, a comforting presence can go a long way if no other support structure is available.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 17 May 2025
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  • The survey found that 60 percent of consumers choose to donate unwanted jeans to charities or thrift stores and 10 percent recycle them through textile recycling programs like Blue Jeans Go Green.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 8 May 2025
  • According to the brand, the striped pattern was inspired by traditional textiles used in many Mediterranean countries, giving it a beachy look.
    Bridget Degnan, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2025
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  • Both Hull and his production team and the Disney+ series’s own VFX team use the weight of Barbican estate style and brutalist architecture to create the sense of order being imposed on those lower levels of the city.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 10 May 2025
  • Fourteen members of the Wheaton church accompanied Cochran, who studied the history of Roman and Christian art and architecture for his graduate degrees.
    Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
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  • The regulatory backdrop is significant, too Days before the trip, the U.S. Commerce Department rescinded the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, a sweeping framework that would have imposed tiered export controls across dozens of countries.
    Catherine Baab, Quartz, 14 May 2025
  • As religious participation declines, one important answer is to create secular frameworks that similarly build common meaning and shared purpose among people—qualities that machines, by definition, cannot provide.
    Kim Samuel, Time, 14 May 2025

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“Fabric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabric. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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