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skein

[skeyn] / skeɪn /


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But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2023

Held in the mesh of gravity and spin, a skein of quantum magnetic charge, the Muon persists, outlives its foreseeable wobble.

From Scientific American • Feb. 5, 2022

It’s dry, with apricot and pear flavors and a skein of minerality that carries the fruit through to a long, satisfying finish.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021

A skein of dread whorls around the narrator’s job at The Hague.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021

Over the past few days, I’d been growing this small bit of hope, letting it build up little by little like yarn wrapped from a skein.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry




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