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India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string of irregularities in potentially life-changing exams.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
This event is the latest in a string of worrying and weird examples of AI agents going rogue.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
When a string of Russian strikes on military training grounds last year killed 12 Ukrainian soldiers, the general who commanded them did something unusual: He took responsibility and resigned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
A Brave win had seemed unlikely for much of the evening after a sloppy fielding display in which they dropped a string of catches, including that of Voll in Bell's opening set.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He’d lean forward as he told stories about his first fishing trip, about meeting Mam with her curls tied back with a piece of string.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
They fear that any strings attached to the public money will make many private schools balk at taking it.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Mayors are expected to get power to spend nationally collected income tax, and crucially to spend billions without strings.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Instead of strings, padel rackets have holes in their dense heads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Look at how he controlled the game and pulled the strings when Argentina chased England down in a dramatic semi-final.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
She'd open and shut her eyes, letting the objects reveal their true selves, the strings of matter that made them.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
They’re each playing tiny instruments — one a half-open sardine can, another a stringed matchbook.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
Santoor is a trapezoid-shaped stringed musical instrument, similar to a dulcimer, which is played with mallets.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
His grandfather was one of the first percussionists in the area and his grandmother played the oud, a lute-like stringed musical instrument common in the Middle East and Africa.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024
Shadow observed, with a wry amusement, that the bows of the stringed instruments, played by mechanical arms, never actually touched the strings, which were often loose or missing.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
More recently, the stock broke above a double-bottom pivot at $108.22 on May 21 and has since strung together an impressive 10-session winning streak.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Under the hood, chatbots and the A.I. bots they power are nothing but a series of static math computations strung together in rapid succession.
From Slate ● May 25, 2026
In the second inning, the bottom of the lineup strung together two hits to score Max Muncy, who reached on a walk.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Hurricanes still drive high premiums: 46 of the 50 costliest counties nationwide, mostly strung along the Gulf Coast, count hurricanes as their primary threat, according to the Journal’s analysis of data from price-comparison firm Insurify.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Dad made sure the company he hired strung lights over the covered wagon that marked the entrance.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
His role in the middle of the park may often go under the radar, but he is the one stringing it all together.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Mboko was unfazed though, and soon adjusted to Ostapenko's pace, stringing together eight consecutive games to secure the opening set and a 5-0 advantage in the second.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Soon we were stringing letters together, bead by bead on little strands, to make words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
“There’s something very fundamental in textile work with stringing things together. Using a ribbon to interweave a bunch of washers is such a nice example.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
You were shivering and coughing, but you started stringing beads while we sang out, “Bead necklaces, pretty bead necklaces!”
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
