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string

[string] / strɪŋ /
NOUN
long fiber
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The report includes a string of case studies which highlight areas of concern, such as the variation of service provision depending on where people live.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The group helped pioneer heavy metal music in Britain with a string of top 10 albums including 1980 hit Ace Of Spades, 1981's No Sleep Til Hammersmith, and Iron Fist in 1982.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The motion also leaves UC as a major holdout after a string of settlements in which universities facing antisemitism investigations agreed to pay a combined total of hundreds of millions of dollars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Market choppiness and artificial-intelligence safety fears are spooking investors and throwing into disarray what was expected to be a string of blockbuster IPOs this fall, Corrie Driebusch reports for The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

I’m in a room that looks like the inside of a cabin, complete with string lights, massive barrels, and OutKast posters.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

Butler said the best cat toys are the ones that offer a reward, like wands with strings, balls and catnip kicker toys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Martin Blunt, a small company that manufactures strings for muscial instruments in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires, has had to shift to a four-day week in the face of falling demand.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Father Harte said the blessing, and afterward, Paddy Mulligan’s bow flew over the fiddle strings as Long Liam’s fingers pounded the skin of his drum.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

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

As she experiments between strumming up and down, the forceful strike gives the stringed instrument a more percussive feel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

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

His father, Keshubhai Udhas, played the dilruba, a traditional Indian stringed instrument.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

Some stringed instruments — guitar for example — can use a capo36 to play in higher keys.

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

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

In the sixth, they finally strung multiple hits together and got a run out of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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

Another rides off with two large fish strung over his motorbike.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

He lay on his back, staring up at the dried mushrooms strung across his ceiling.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

They were third in the majors in walks and near the bottom in strikeouts, which allowed them to manufacture runs by stringing together long innings rather than relying on the long ball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Vast periods of this play-off went by without Rangers stringing more than four and five passes together.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

College wait lists have ballooned to give schools options; “Why continue stringing me on?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

By the time he caught up with her, she had climbed a hillock and was stringing the bow.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander




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