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string

[string] / strɪŋ /
NOUN
long fiber
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Over the years he fronted a string of popular UTV programmes including Lifestyle, Kelly's People, Kelly on Tour and Kelly on the Road.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string of irregularities in potentially life-changing exams.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

The portrait features an Indian woman in a formal pose, wearing a string of pearls, a large emerald pendant and a nose ring.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

On the 78s she left behind, she’s an intriguingly forceful presence—but remote, as if heard from the next room through a paper cup and string.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Dad has called twice and left a string of worried texts.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Eighteen-year-old Bouaddi caught the eye this summer as he pulled the midfield strings for a Morocco side who reached the quarter-finals.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Wednesday’s overall weak readings come as local governments cut back fiscal spending to curb debt risks while Chinese consumers tighten their purse strings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Farage and Harborne have both said there were no strings attached to the personal gift, nor to the political donations to Reform.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Mr. Argue’s arrangements evoke that same sense of vulnerability, of raw emotion, blending bold sweeps of strings with spare passages.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

“And if you can do that, I’ll give you a real prize: ten million each with no strings attached.”

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

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

Irish pipes, bouzouki, violin and fiddle also feature in the performance alongside an oud - a stringed instrument often described as similar to the European lute - and Middle Eastern percussion.

From BBC Jan. 26, 2026

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

Two inmates were granted leave to see the concert featuring 14 prison-made stringed instruments playing a program that included works by Bach and Vivaldi.

From Seattle Times Feb. 13, 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

Another rides off with two large fish strung over his motorbike.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

More recently, the stock broke above a double-bottom pivot at $108.22 on May 21 and has since strung together an impressive 10-session winning streak.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

Under the hood, chatbots and the A.I. bots they power are nothing but a series of static math computations strung together in rapid succession.

From Slate May 25, 2026

In the second inning, the bottom of the lineup strung together two hits to score Max Muncy, who reached on a walk.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

After painting the walnut-paneled library a screeching canary yellow, she strung a clothesline across the nineteenth-century wrought-iron balcony the former owner had brought up from New Orleans.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

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

Soon we were stringing letters together, bead by bead on little strands, to make words.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

“There’s something very fundamental in textile work with stringing things together. Using a ribbon to interweave a bunch of washers is such a nice example.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2025

Thanks to Tsalig, who was always looking out for me, I, too, started working for the brush maker, stringing bristles through a board to make brushes for the Germans.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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