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string

[string] / strɪŋ /
NOUN
long fiber
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The report includes a string of case studies which highlight areas of concern, such as the variation of service provision depending on where people live.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

As the city contends with a string of challenges—declining snowfall and plummeting real-estate sales among them—it is the runway reconstruction that has become one of the hottest-button topics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The group helped pioneer heavy metal music in Britain with a string of top 10 albums including 1980 hit Ace Of Spades, 1981's No Sleep Til Hammersmith, and Iron Fist in 1982.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The motion also leaves UC as a major holdout after a string of settlements in which universities facing antisemitism investigations agreed to pay a combined total of hundreds of millions of dollars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It was madness, extraordinary, impossible, he thought; he had woken that morning, pulled on his jeans, and slung his crows’ string around his neck with no inkling that he was going to an enchanted island.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Booths were adorned with strings of dried red peppers -- the raw ingredient used to make paprika -- recalling a sight once common on houses in the surrounding countryside every autumn.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

But the production here betrays its economy, and the direction, by Garth Davis and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, remains earthbound, held down by mournful strings and devoid of color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Instead of the smooth, narrow tubes commonly drawn extending from nerve cells, some axons resemble strings of tiny pearls.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

"I made too many errors when I had the ball there on my strings."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Some of these walking sticks are decorated with beaded strings and feathers.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

Robert Hilton, a retired art teacher with an interest in African and Indian music, would wander over with a lute-like stringed instrument, or one of his other homemade instruments, to provide the entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

Other works going under the hammer include the Landscape Sculpture, which looks like a stringed instrument, the brass sculpture Maquette For Winged Figure, and an oil and pencil work called Atlantic Form, Blue.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024

Two inmates were granted leave to see the concert featuring 14 prison-made stringed instruments playing a program that included works by Bach and Vivaldi.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

I tore open my shirt and showed them the stringed scapular.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Instead, long stretches of the book read like disparate essays on donnish life, fads and internecine disagreements, strung together in a sequence that never coheres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

What these apps do best is lay bare the ways in which our entire economy is structured like a betting app strung together by incentive perverts.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

Another rides off with two large fish strung over his motorbike.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

They belonged to Odysseus and no hand but his had ever strung the bow or used it.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Official-sounding email addresses floated around, offering bookings and stringing people along before asking for large payments.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

A model trained this way can produce natural-sounding sentences by stringing one word after another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Vast periods of this play-off went by without Rangers stringing more than four and five passes together.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

In early November, Edie Harmon, who has documented border wall activity in the Jacumba Wilderness since 2020, learned that Marines were stringing wire in an area called Skull Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

When Aileen and I walked by the dining hall and saw Gillian and her team stringing lights up under the portico, Aileen dropped the coat off her shoulders again and stared ahead.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely




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