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[skayn] / skeɪn /


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But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 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

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

From a nearby crab apple tree, a small ball of confused bees hung like a ragged skein of yarn.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby


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