Thesaurus results for SEW UP

sew up

verb

Definition of sew up next

as in to consume

to have complete control over sewed up the available openings so that no one else had a chance to play golf

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Recent Examples on the Web Harris also appears to have sewn up Biden’s polling gap with former President Donald Trump, trailing the Republican nominee by only 1 point in the New York Times’ polling average late Thursday. —

Christina Wilkie, CNBC, 26 July 2024 Some more history: incumbent Gerald Ford did not sew up the GOP nomination against a challenge by Ronald Reagan in 1976 until the delegates actually voted at their August convention. —

Jerry Goldfeder, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024 The Democrats’ surprisingly strong showing in those elections seemed to sew up the question of whether Biden would run again. —

Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024 The goal of a transparent export landscape is not to ensure that U.S. firms sew up every infrastructure project that comes along. —

Fred P. Hochberg, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015 See all Example Sentences for sew up

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