skein
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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
A skein of dread whorls around the narrator’s job at The Hague.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 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
At once each face in the circle turned to him as if he had gathered up their gazes into a sheaf, a skein.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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