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skein

[skeyn] / skeɪn /


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But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2023

Held in the mesh of gravity and spin, a skein of quantum magnetic charge, the Muon persists, outlives its foreseeable wobble.

From Scientific American Feb. 5, 2022

The two C’s in this third thread share not just a letter but also hooves and horns with Chapman from the first — a sign of the skein of connections Bell builds his novel around.

From New York Times Jul. 13, 2021

By 3 in the morning, they have taken my blood so many times that the veins in my arm have bloomed into a delicate purple skein.

From Slate May 6, 2021

“Yes, yes. You are mistaken. I put a new skein beside you only an hour ago. You have mislaid the thread,” he insisted.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan




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