strand
Example Sentences
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DNA does not sit inside a cell as a simple straight strand.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Above all, Swanberg is interested in one strand of this knotty dilemma: how an ex turns from trash to treasure the minute someone else claims them from the dumpster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The machines use focused beams of ultraviolet light to etch on wafers of silicon billions of transistors roughly the width of a strand of DNA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
At the summit, the discipline that got you up the mountain is the very thing that can strand you on it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
It could have been a strand of spider silk, or it could have been something better, and more dangerous.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Vocabulary lists containing strand
The Cay
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 5
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