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The string of thefts have raised questions about the security of European cultural institutions.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

As they craft, artisans chant aloud the design code handwritten on a strip of paper known as talim -- shorthand of ancient symbols for numbers and colours -- knotting the threads string by string.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

In recent months DeepMind has seen the departures of a string of top researchers as the company’s flagship AI models have fallen behind those from Anthropic and OpenAI on capabilities such as coding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

It characterizes the lower court as engaging in “a string of speculation” about what the federal agencies might do when, and how that speculation illustrates that the state’s claims aren’t ripe for review.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

She hadn't put broccoli in the shopping cart, only carrots and string beans, Sam's favorites.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

Paramount and just about every other major studio pulling the strings in Hollywood look even worse; it also makes the film itself look even better.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Still, with its smooth strings, creamy brass, pungent winds and friendly percussion, Noseda’s NSO came across as a gracious orchestra meant to please, and, consequently, a seemingly marvelous anomaly in an otherwise divisive present-day D.C.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Mayors are expected to get power to spend nationally collected income tax, and crucially to spend billions without strings.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

They fear that any strings attached to the public money will make many private schools balk at taking it.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

I did the same with the sack of flour and carefully slid my arms with the strings into Mrs. Diamants enormous old coat.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

The wall paintings are adorned with candelabras, stringed instruments called lyres, white cranes and a delicate daisy.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

“Country Radio” provides a sense of heartsick nostalgia over a hopeful chorus of stringed instruments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025

His grandfather was one of the first percussionists in the area and his grandmother played the oud, a lute-like stringed musical instrument common in the Middle East and Africa.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

What Corelli did was create a musical version of chiaroscuro by contrasting a big-sounding band of stringed instruments with a small group, switching between the big and the small throughout the piece.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

In the sixth, they finally strung multiple hits together and got a run out of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

What these apps do best is lay bare the ways in which our entire economy is structured like a betting app strung together by incentive perverts.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

Firmly strung in a gridded pattern, squash rackets have more of an ovular shape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

"We want something sort of like a racehorse, a little bit high strung, a little bit forward -- something that's got a heart, that's going to run."

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

Mami had strung a nugget of coral and an onyx bead on a safety pin and attached it to Raymond’s baby shirt at birth.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Vast periods of this play-off went by without Rangers stringing more than four and five passes together.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

He got hot from the 12th through 15th holes, stringing together four birdies in a row.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026

Micron’s point in stringing together this alphabetical atrocity is that the market for one of its most lucrative products could see 40% yearly growth through 2028, from $35 billion to $100 billion.

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

It would be some five years before generative artificial intelligence would be out in the wild, stringing together words as well as many humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

Soon, some of them were writing on the envelopes, and others were cutting and curling pieces of tissue, gluing them into flower shapes, and stringing them together to form fluffy garlands.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie