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skein

[skeyn] / skeɪn /


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It starts with a spark, created from an organ called a skein that previously lay dormant, that gives girls, and then women, the power to electrocute at will.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2023

The country also has developed a vibrant civil society, the skein of citizen-run, nongovernmental organizations and associations that infuse a healthy democracy with pluralism, participation and political vigor.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 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

News that he had deployed Navy warships, bristling with machine guns, pushed aside a skein of reports about his ethical conduct while in office.

From New York Times • May 6, 2021

Opal watched, transfixed for a while, and then fell asleep on the floor, a skein of gold clutched in her hands.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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