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When it comes to the history of insurance cycles, a string of good results should only make you more nervous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The home comes with plenty of Hollywood history, having housed a string of famous residents over the years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The studio has had a string of disappointments this year, including Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” and DC Studios’ “Supergirl.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The court heard O'Lali has a string of previous convictions under his belt, including for excess speed.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The air smelled like fresh bread, apples, parcel paper, and string, and I saw rows and rows of wrapped chocolates living behind glass.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Booths were adorned with strings of dried red peppers -- the raw ingredient used to make paprika -- recalling a sight once common on houses in the surrounding countryside every autumn.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

But a yes could come with some strings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Instead of the smooth, narrow tubes commonly drawn extending from nerve cells, some axons resemble strings of tiny pearls.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

"I made too many errors when I had the ball there on my strings."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

“Grandpa,” I said, “what are all of those strings and rings for?”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

Irish pipes, bouzouki, violin and fiddle also feature in the performance alongside an oud - a stringed instrument often described as similar to the European lute - and Middle Eastern percussion.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026

Robert Hilton, a retired art teacher with an interest in African and Indian music, would wander over with a lute-like stringed instrument, or one of his other homemade instruments, to provide the entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

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

Instead, long stretches of the book read like disparate essays on donnish life, fads and internecine disagreements, strung together in a sequence that never coheres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

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

The grass is being measured, the rackets strung and the strawberries and cream prepped.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Mami had strung a nugget of coral and an onyx bead on a safety pin and attached it to Raymond’s baby shirt at birth.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Official-sounding email addresses floated around, offering bookings and stringing people along before asking for large payments.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

A model trained this way can produce natural-sounding sentences by stringing one word after another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

His role in the middle of the park may often go under the radar, but he is the one stringing it all together.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

In early November, Edie Harmon, who has documented border wall activity in the Jacumba Wilderness since 2020, learned that Marines were stringing wire in an area called Skull Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

Still, it could take her minutes to make out the meanings of some words, struggling through the pronunciation, testing each sound on the edge of her tongue before stringing them all together.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee