helix

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Still, Harper and Yasmin’s existences are inextricably linked, gnarled together in a helix of favors and bargains.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

You can look at friendship as a journey that is like a double helix: Sometimes you and a friend will be in sync financially or emotionally, and other times you’ll be out of alignment.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

Franklin, whose expert X-ray images solidified Watson’s conviction that DNA was a double helix, had died four years earlier of ovarian cancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

When she loses her cycle, she is forced to run up the helix of a parking garage at normal human speed, giving a pathetic comedic element to someone who ought to be terrifying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

DNA is a double helix, the two intertwined strands resembling a “spiral” staircase.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan