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strands

NOUN
fine thread
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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Several pieces—“Then When,” “Glass Labyrinth,” “Intonal” and parts of “Door 13 / Pink Athens,” most notably—use repeating ostinatos, with other strands woven around them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Villarreal picked him up, and there the two strands of his life - football and study - ran in parallel.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

Their screening indicated a pattern associated with breaks in DNA strands.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

They spurred their mounts onward; the strands of the web broke and melted away.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander


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