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Recent Examples of pleachPool Garden Linden trees are pleached and underplanted with liriope, while boxwood hedges frame pink annuals.—Owen Holmes, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
Ayad Akhtar, the author of Homeland Elegies, plaits autofiction with philosophical inquiry.
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Hamilton Cain,
Time,
22 Dec. 2025
The struggle is not due to a lack of options, though: Boho braids wrapped into an elegant bun; cornrows neatly plaited into a bow; and small, knotless braids with wavy ends are just a few ways to wear braids down the aisle.
Some of its members and those of some of its sister organizations have been implicated in – or accused of - instigating attacks against India's Muslim and Christian minorities.
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Rob Schmitz,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2026
They were charged after Lorenz, then under arrest for another crime in Iowa, confessed to murdering Meindl and implicated Pugh.
But where limestone is crumbly and opaque, nacre’s toughness and light-bending properties come from silklike proteins that weave among the layers, holding them in place while providing enough elasticity to absorb the shock of a fracture.
Never tested in orbit, NASA’s robot could, in theory, perform tasks like weaving solar power stations and antennae in space from spools of carbon fiber.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026