cat's cradle
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By the 1880s, a cat’s cradle of submerged telegraph lines wound around the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
The noodle master in the open kitchen stretches and twists the strings of dough as if mimicking a game of cat’s cradle.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
To pass the time, they played games like Miss Mary Mack and cat’s cradle and sang Jackson 5 tunes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2020
No other series has propelled such a massive yet impeccably individualized cast through such an impossibly intricate cat’s cradle of story lines that honestly should have collapsed long ago but didn’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2019
Usually, Meadowlark and I use our before-bed time to talk, brush our teeth together, or play cat’s cradle or card games she invents.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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