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skein

[skeyn] / skeɪn /


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But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 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

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

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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