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And I think what they were trying to do was to string out and string out the investigation.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2024

While it’s worth encouraging folks not to use fireworks amid escalating wildfire danger, they say it’s kind of silly that federal land managers would suggest using aerosol cans of sticky party string out in nature.

From Seattle Times Jul. 1, 2023

I bought multiple copies of Scott’s death certificate, but I was unprepared for how companies string out requests for other documents.

From Washington Post Nov. 20, 2022

In C, the ‘%n’ specifier means to save the number of characters written into the format string out to a variable passed to the string format function.

From The Verge Jul. 4, 2021

I started to move my hand slowly, toward the tiny front pocket of my shorts, pulling the piece of silk string out of it without drawing too much attention to myself.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall




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