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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

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

L.A. was once wetlands fed by the cobweb streams and marshes of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021

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

A single cobweb stretched over the nearest window, across a bloodred sky.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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