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She also collaborated with director Martin Scorsese on a string of his acclaimed 1970s films including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver and New York, New York.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

These nucleosomes connect like beads on a string and fold into chromatin fibers.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025

The single combat involves swinging a conker -- a hardened horse chestnut -- on a string at your opponent's nut with murderous venom, until one is smashed to pieces.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

In many productions, Hamlet stalks the stage in a fog of misery, as if trailing a rain cloud above his head like a balloon on a string.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Once when I came back from trying to catch crabs with a fish head on a string, our motel door was locked.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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