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
The two C’s in this third thread share not just a letter but also hooves and horns with Chapman from the first — a sign of the skein of connections Bell builds his novel around.
From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2021
As media has splintered and hybridized in unimaginable ways, SNL has been spread so thin it’s become practically translucent, a skein of satirical latex stretched over the culture.
From Slate • Jul. 31, 2020
Whenever I filled the bobbin, he quickly removed the skein and added it to the growing pile of gold.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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