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embroider

[em-broi-der] / ɛmˈbrɔɪ dər /




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Season 2 feels like much more of an ensemble affair as showrunner Tony Gilroy expands the show’s focus beyond one character’s moral development to more thoroughly embroider others that are just as worthwhile.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025

For long swathes, she maintains suspense with a kind of danced click track, a ticking like a stopwatch or a bomb which the dancers rhythmically embroider.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2023

“I’m going to embroider that on a T-shirt,’’ said Thorn, 76, with pride.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2023

"Our embroidery masters taped their phones to lamps and used the torch light to embroider with a thread and needle," he says.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2023

As she conversed with her girl friends every afternoon when they came to embroider on the porch, she tried to think of new subterfuges.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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