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In “Self-Portrait With Necklace,” a string of blue jadestones rests on Kahlo’s bare neck, above the fringes of a lace blouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

In post-Stalinist Russia, people carried around an avos’ka—a just-in-case string bag—so that if they happened upon a queue for anything that had suddenly become available, they would be ready to purchase and carry it home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It took place weeks before frontman Osbourne died aged 76 after suffering from a string of health issues including Parkinson's disease – which left him struggling to stand or walk unaided.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Her departure is the latest in a string of senior leadership changes at OpenAI, which has weathered significant executive turnover in recent years and has filed for a high-stakes IPO.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

She began to mark out the patches of gray, with the sticks jammed in the ground and the string looped around them.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Farage and Harborne have both said there were no strings attached to the personal gift, nor to the political donations to Reform.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

There just aren’t enough strings in life or estate planning that would allow you to do that.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

Sticky, translucent strings dangle from Wesley Smith's chopsticks as the American tourist relishes his natto, the loved-and-hated Japanese fermented soybean superfood going global one slimy mouthful at a time.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

So he thought, Well, if guitar has six strings and bass has four strings, bass must be easier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Now listen to the same phrase played by an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar with twelve steel strings34 and an acoustic guitar with six nylon strings.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

They’re each playing tiny instruments — one a half-open sardine can, another a stringed matchbook.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

Other works going under the hammer include the Landscape Sculpture, which looks like a stringed instrument, the brass sculpture Maquette For Winged Figure, and an oil and pencil work called Atlantic Form, Blue.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024

To that end, he has loaned musicians nine stringed instruments that he purchased — seven violins, one viola and one cello — by Italian master luthiers dating from 1686-1835.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Julie strung the scammer along for two hours before he gave up.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

More recently, the stock broke above a double-bottom pivot at $108.22 on May 21 and has since strung together an impressive 10-session winning streak.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Base jumpers parachuted from its heights, and a performance artist recorded himself teetering along a 1-inch-wide slackline strung between two of the properties’ 40-story towers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Hurricanes still drive high premiums: 46 of the 50 costliest counties nationwide, mostly strung along the Gulf Coast, count hurricanes as their primary threat, according to the Journal’s analysis of data from price-comparison firm Insurify.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

At night she had seen the lamps shining in Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house, and at Christmas time the lights that his sons strung on a pine tree outside.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

Micron’s point in stringing together this alphabetical atrocity is that the market for one of its most lucrative products could see 40% yearly growth through 2028, from $35 billion to $100 billion.

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

“He is stringing us along,” he said of the Russian leader.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2025

In her two-page ruling on Friday, Cannon said Newsmax’s lawyers inappropriately tried to build their case by stringing together allegations to compound their effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

Medical teams triaged evacuees in a car park, wrapping up wounds and stringing up bags of saline for IV drips under tents.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025

Soon, some of them were writing on the envelopes, and others were cutting and curling pieces of tissue, gluing them into flower shapes, and stringing them together to form fluffy garlands.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie