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sinew

[sin-yoo] / ˈsɪn ju /


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Players who don't have the manager's back might not strain every last sinew when they know his job is hanging by a thread.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025

“To have had the opportunity to come back and to really play, discover, and put flesh and blood and sinew and heartbeat into this woman, to really fill her out,” O’Reilly says.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

Many other Ukrainian soldiers are still straining every sinew on the front lines, trying to at least slow the Russian advance.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025

The nearly photorealistic face of Senua, the unconventional hero of this 10th-century revenge tale, as she grimaces with every sinew taut, her veins bulging.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2024

The sinew stretched, throwing off drops of water.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

These dot-plot predictions, in turn, can influence current or future changes in stock or bond prices, the sinews of financial markets.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

It’s hard to imagine a greater accomplishment than to achieve peace while stiffening the sinews of deterrence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

Among the findings are arrows preserved with their original feathers, remains of fibres, and two bowstrings made of animal sinews, which are the oldest found so far in Europe.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024

The trainers’ comments gnawed at me, fraying the last sinews of my certainty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

One day, my aunt made me an ornamental Sudanese bracelet of sinews and low cow hairs.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau


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