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As if to compensate, on a drizzly Sunday evening in Kyiv, a crowd gathered in the street beneath an apartment building’s third-floor balcony to hear a makeshift string quartet play concertos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

The recent string of payroll figures will complicate his ambitions, and the bond market’s reaction will likely test his dovish resolve.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The eight-minute “Actress” is an aural trip that croons of a lazy wannabe-actress, before it climbs to rocking, triumphal heights with a soaring string section.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

Newly installed CBS News chief Bari Weiss fired a string of staff at the news programme last week, including its longtime executive producer, and tapped a new editor, Nick Bilton, with no broadcast news experience.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

So, “we used to tie an apple to a string and move the string up and down … making a strange noise every time it would rebound.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock