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skein

[skeyn] / skeɪn /


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The skein in June left the Angels four games under .500 and 3.5 games out of the final wild-card spot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 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 two C’s in this third thread share not just a letter but also hooves and horns with Chapman from the first — a sign of the skein of connections Bell builds his novel around.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2021

As media has splintered and hybridized in unimaginable ways, SNL has been spread so thin it’s become practically translucent, a skein of satirical latex stretched over the culture.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2020

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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