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Rather it was forced on Snead by a string of decisions he’d already made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
As they craft, artisans chant aloud the design code handwritten on a strip of paper known as talim -- shorthand of ancient symbols for numbers and colours -- knotting the threads string by string.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
They released a string of duets and toured together, leading fans to think they were an item.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
It characterizes the lower court as engaging in “a string of speculation” about what the federal agencies might do when, and how that speculation illustrates that the state’s claims aren’t ripe for review.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
I hissed, fumbling with the string at my neck.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The mostly instrumental “Panorama” swirls banjo, mandolin, strings and horns with droning electronics, landing on a kind of spaced-out Americana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Salzburg, Dudamel indulged the Vienna Philharmonic’s incomparable lushness, those plush strings, glowing winds, golden brass, voluminous timpani.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
They fear that any strings attached to the public money will make many private schools balk at taking it.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Look at how he controlled the game and pulled the strings when Argentina chased England down in a dramatic semi-final.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
His bow glided back and forth, his fingers danced across the strings, and a lovely old folk song filled the room.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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
Santoor is a trapezoid-shaped stringed musical instrument, similar to a dulcimer, which is played with mallets.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
“Country Radio” provides a sense of heartsick nostalgia over a hopeful chorus of stringed instruments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
His grandfather was one of the first percussionists in the area and his grandmother played the oud, a lute-like stringed musical instrument common in the Middle East and Africa.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 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
At Christmas, snow machines cover the grounds while lights are strung through the trees and holiday music plays all day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Across the courtyard in another workshop a handful of PoWs are making artificial Christmas trees, gaudy baubles strung from their machines.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
What these apps do best is lay bare the ways in which our entire economy is structured like a betting app strung together by incentive perverts.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 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
Eleanor gestured behind her to the roll of brown paper and the electric iron with its twisty cord strung from the ceiling.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Vast periods of this play-off went by without Rangers stringing more than four and five passes together.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Mboko was unfazed though, and soon adjusted to Ostapenko's pace, stringing together eight consecutive games to secure the opening set and a 5-0 advantage in the second.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Soon we were stringing letters together, bead by bead on little strands, to make words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
“There’s something very fundamental in textile work with stringing things together. Using a ribbon to interweave a bunch of washers is such a nice example.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
Undeterred by his weight she fed the hens, gathered eggs, fetched water, then sat at the table stringing dried mushrooms.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
