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cobweb

[kob-web] / ˈkɒbˌwɛb /


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Make a homemade spider toss game that transforms your living room floor into a huge cobweb.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

Before the space-warrior saga, she traversed the Spider-Verse with cobweb and spider detailing on her “Spider-Man” press tour ensembles.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2024

And in Edward Crutchley’s treatise on queer culture and the Goth, with its crushed velvets slipping down the torso, hole-poked cobweb knits — and reading list.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

Its subsequent burgeoning is redundant evidence that restraining a popular appetite with a statute is akin to lassoing a locomotive with a cobweb, which should chasten busybody governments.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2018

Bod reached out his hand and found himself touching fingers with, and gazing into the grey eyes of, the lady in the cobweb dress.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman




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