How to Use linter in a Sentence
linter
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Bemberg is produced in Japan from cotton linters, a pre-consumer byproduct of cottonseed oil, using a traceable closed-loop process.
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Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Feb. 2026
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The cotton is composed of two components, cotton linters from the cotton plant that’s not used in the textile industry and cotton side stream from yarn production.
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Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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The Nobeoka plant is the sole production site for Bemberg, the trade name for cupro, a regenerated cellulose fiber made from cotton linters.
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Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Feb. 2026
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Enterprises are now embedding linters, security scanners, and deterministic workflows directly into the agentic loop.
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Mohith Shrivastava,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Cotton linters—the short fibers left on cottonseed after ginning—can be processed into nitrocellulose, a highly volatile, nitrogen-rich material known as guncotton that’s used as a primary ingredient in solid rocket propellants for ballistic missiles.
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Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
27 Apr. 2026
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