skein
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The country also has developed a vibrant civil society, the skein of citizen-run, nongovernmental organizations and associations that infuse a healthy democracy with pluralism, participation and political vigor.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2023
A skein of ropes is systematically assembled by the ensemble as scrolls are unrolled to illustrate the science of perspective.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023
Held in the mesh of gravity and spin, a skein of quantum magnetic charge, the Muon persists, outlives its foreseeable wobble.
From Scientific American • Feb. 5, 2022
News that he had deployed Navy warships, bristling with machine guns, pushed aside a skein of reports about his ethical conduct while in office.
From New York Times • May 6, 2021
Slughorn, however, did not seem to be listening; he was looking up at the ceiling, from which a number of brass pots hung, and also a long, silky skein of bright white hair.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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