on a string
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China doesn’t operate on a 50 to 100 year corporate horizon, but rather on a string of five-year plans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Mitochondrial pearling is a temporary shape change in which mitochondria form a structure that looks like beads on a string.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026
Together, their students and postdocs collaborated on a string of papers pioneering chip-making techniques involving metal-organic frameworks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
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
Instead, I inspected a paper leprechaun that was dangling from the ceiling on a string.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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