skein
Example Sentences
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It starts with a spark, created from an organ called a skein that previously lay dormant, that gives girls, and then women, the power to electrocute at will.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 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
It was the latest in a skein of legal maneuvers by the prince’s lawyers to defuse Ms. Giuffre’s case.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022
It’s dry, with apricot and pear flavors and a skein of minerality that carries the fruit through to a long, satisfying finish.
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021
He picked up a little skein of the deep crimson.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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