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skein

[skeyn] / skeɪn /


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It starts with a spark, created from an organ called a skein that previously lay dormant, that gives girls, and then women, the power to electrocute at will.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2023

Held in the mesh of gravity and spin, a skein of quantum magnetic charge, the Muon persists, outlives its foreseeable wobble.

From Scientific American • Feb. 5, 2022

The central plot of “Parallel Mothers” is vintage Almodóvar: a skein of reversals, revelations, surprises and coincidences unraveled with style, wit and feeling.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2021

By 3 in the morning, they have taken my blood so many times that the veins in my arm have bloomed into a delicate purple skein.

From Slate • May 6, 2021

It was as if all of a sudden Naheed was a giant in the room with an endless skein of cotton on her head and everyone was staring at her, and it.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin




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