yarn
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They also successfully simulated the behavior by treating each textile as a continuous material rather than attempting to model every individual strand of yarn.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
This is an uncomplicated yarn about a man prying open his heart and nudging other hard nuts to do the same.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
"It's good to meet different people and have a yarn with them… It's amazing the number of people you do find," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
I circle them with my arms and rub my cheeks against their soft yarn fur.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
The researchers next added thin conductive yarns to demonstrate how the technology could be used in practical devices.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
"And that's not just writers who continually return to the Greeks and Romans -- the history, the myths, the characters, the events -- that's also readers. These are ripping good yarns."
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Coppola’s use of archival footage brings Jacobs’ yarns to life.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
Works such as “Treasure Island” and “Kidnapped,” still read today, exemplify the Scottish author’s gift for yarns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
She chose a variety of yarns in colors that reminded her of autumn leaves: warm reds and blazing oranges and golden yellows.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
As usually happens when I sit down with Marlow, we yarned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were very happy in our party, and when cooking we all sang and yarned, nobody ever seemed tired once we got quit of the motors.
From South with Scott by Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Baron Mountevans
When I returned from the West, and yarned to them of starvation and toil and strife in that new world, they urged me to put it down instead of talking it.
Some of them had gone down on their knees by the roadside, while the teamster had a drink and yarned with Steve.
From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard
It’s like a late-night D&M with a mate – only the mate is Nick Cave and we’re yarning with the lights up amid a cast of thousands.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2019
The present collection of rural yarning is a useful reminder that Caldwell, 57, is one of the best short-story tellers in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
But throughout runs a vein of the old, Rocky Mountain, free-&-easy Fowler yarning.
From Time Magazine Archive
None surpasses the Sage of Burwash at yarning in dialects of all sorts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Potch saw Michael's eyes wander to where George was sitting yarning with his mates.
From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard
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