skein
Example Sentences
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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
The country also has developed a vibrant civil society, the skein of citizen-run, nongovernmental organizations and associations that infuse a healthy democracy with pluralism, participation and political vigor.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 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
A skein of dread whorls around the narrator’s job at The Hague.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
Whenever I filled the bobbin, he quickly removed the skein and added it to the growing pile of gold.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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