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I landed roles in off-Broadway plays and then was cast in a string of TV shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The home comes with plenty of Hollywood history, having housed a string of famous residents over the years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
This isn’t an epic work but a compilation of comic sketches tied together with heavy thematic string.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The seven-time Grand Slam champion was below the level he showed in winning the Japan Open last week as he produced a string of uncharacteristic errors.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Tying short pieces of string to the heads of the nails, I hung an apple to the underbrush above each trap.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Musk fans and Delta loyalists piled in, generating strings of comments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Instead of the smooth, narrow tubes commonly drawn extending from nerve cells, some axons resemble strings of tiny pearls.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
"I made too many errors when I had the ball there on my strings."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Martin Blunt, a small company that manufactures strings for muscial instruments in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires, has had to shift to a four-day week in the face of falling demand.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Vocalists, wind instruments, and bowed strings are usually not part of the rhythm section.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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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
Other works going under the hammer include the Landscape Sculpture, which looks like a stringed instrument, the brass sculpture Maquette For Winged Figure, and an oil and pencil work called Atlantic Form, Blue.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
The warm mahogany tones of the stringed instruments, that classic brass glow, made for a really nice color palette.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Recordings by Cajun singers and players of stringed instruments like Rusty and Doug Kershaw and Jimmy C. Newman often reached the country Top 40 in the 1950s and ’60s.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
They all thought it was a shame the Beiderman reacted so strongly to stringed instruments, especially given Isa’s extraordinary progress over the last six years.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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At Christmas, snow machines cover the grounds while lights are strung through the trees and holiday music plays all day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Across the courtyard in another workshop a handful of PoWs are making artificial Christmas trees, gaudy baubles strung from their machines.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
However, the strung iron bits soon proved to be a two-edged weapon.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Official-sounding email addresses floated around, offering bookings and stringing people along before asking for large payments.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
"That they wouldn't just keep stringing people along, they'd be straight-forward and say whether the site has a future or not."
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
His role in the middle of the park may often go under the radar, but he is the one stringing it all together.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
He got hot from the 12th through 15th holes, stringing together four birdies in a row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
I made a pattern of marigold garlands in honor of Hari and to remind me of the hours I had spent in stringing the orange flowers.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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