stringy
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Muenster is less assertive but more accommodating: its mild butteriness stands beside the sauce without competing, and it softens agreeably in summer warmth without becoming stringy or oily.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
And that is exactly what his company's Kamakurayama Natto, touted as "extremely stringy" but minus "stinkiness and bitterness," seeks to achieve.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
"They are currently called 'the stringy things' and 'the drummy things'," laughs Franglen.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
In this case: a stringy slot corner who never had been credited for a sack in his college career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
The Ebola virus particle contains only seven different proteins—seven distinct types of large molecules arranged in a long braided structure that is the stringy Ebola particle.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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While she vigorously stirred her bowl of bibimbap topped with natto, Smith knew that this would only make it even stringier.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Using a sieve strains out the stringier part of the albumen to ensure consistency.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023
“Their flesh is slightly stringier and more juicy than some other varieties when cooked, so they’re good for mashing and incorporating into baked goods and desserts.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021
They are instead almost uniformly lithe and Olympian, their bodies remorselessly optimum-scaled, narrower, stringier, more compact.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013
Soviet consumers can thus expect thinner milk and stringier beef this winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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You'd have hitched up with the stringiest sort of ballet-girl and been to-day a stable-boy in the Humpelmeier Circus.
From Pandora's Box A Tragedy in Three Acts by Frank Wedekind