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strand

[strand] / strænd /
NOUN
fine thread
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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The machines use focused beams of ultraviolet light to etch on wafers of silicon billions of transistors roughly the width of a strand of DNA.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

At the summit, the discipline that got you up the mountain is the very thing that can strand you on it.

From MarketWatch Jul. 16, 2026

Large groups strand together, she explained, because they travel in the same currents and are deposited along coastlines at the same time.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

The script is by David Koepp of the paranoid thriller “Black Bag” and Spielberg’s 2005 version of “War of the Worlds,” yet, this plot strand about private enterprise isn’t science fiction.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

We had a capital “severe tea” at Robin Hood’s Bay in a sweet little old-fashioned inn, with a bow-window right over the seaweed-covered rocks of the strand.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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