strands
Example Sentences
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At the dawn of the internet, a select group of companies made a killing creating the equipment and business model for the system of glass strands bundled in cables, known as a fiber-optic network.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Unlike natural DNA -- long, entangled strands that behave like wet spaghetti when handled -- short and rigid pieces of synthetic DNA can be arranged with much greater precision at extremely small scales.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
My vision crowded with strands in the wake of my indecision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
At a bustling factory in western India, technicians work around the clock to turn glass into hair-thin fibre-optic strands destined for data centres powering the global artificial intelligence boom.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
I knocked, and an old man, a stranger with a few strands of white and rumpled hair, peered blearily into the sunlight.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
