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string

[string] / strɪŋ /
NOUN
long fiber
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Alpöge’s discovery is the latest in a string of high-profile mathematical breakthroughs made by large language models.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

The 82-year-old was one of the biggest pop stars of the 1970s with a string of number one hits.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Especially not after a string of disappointing postseason exits since winning the NL pennant in 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Which makes sense, of course, because I, too, am always scrolling my iPad in bed, wearing a leopard-print string bikini and A.I. glasses.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2026

I hissed, fumbling with the string at my neck.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

In Salzburg, Dudamel indulged the Vienna Philharmonic’s incomparable lushness, those plush strings, glowing winds, golden brass, voluminous timpani.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

They fear that any strings attached to the public money will make many private schools balk at taking it.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

It was illuminating to hear the period-instrument orchestra—led by Geoffrey Loff, who also played keyboard—with its softer strings and prominent bassoons, though the continuo cellist struggled with coordination.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Eighteen-year-old Bouaddi caught the eye this summer as he pulled the midfield strings for a Morocco side who reached the quarter-finals.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

He decorated our evergreen tree with strings of berries and paper chains.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 15, 2026

Robert Hilton, a retired art teacher with an interest in African and Indian music, would wander over with a lute-like stringed instrument, or one of his other homemade instruments, to provide the entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2025

Other works going under the hammer include the Landscape Sculpture, which looks like a stringed instrument, the brass sculpture Maquette For Winged Figure, and an oil and pencil work called Atlantic Form, Blue.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2024

To that end, he has loaned musicians nine stringed instruments that he purchased — seven violins, one viola and one cello — by Italian master luthiers dating from 1686-1835.

From Seattle Times Feb. 27, 2024

They all thought it was a shame the Beiderman reacted so strongly to stringed instruments, especially given Isa’s extraordinary progress over the last six years.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

"We want something sort of like a racehorse, a little bit high strung, a little bit forward -- something that's got a heart, that's going to run."

From Barron's Jun. 28, 2026

Base jumpers parachuted from its heights, and a performance artist recorded himself teetering along a 1-inch-wide slackline strung between two of the properties’ 40-story towers.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

Under the hood, chatbots and the A.I. bots they power are nothing but a series of static math computations strung together in rapid succession.

From Slate May 25, 2026

He addressed that immediately with Ruff and, without having to overhaul the roster, the Sabres strung together a 10-game winning streak that flipped their season.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

Normally, enjoying his rapt attention, I would have strung it out much longer, but after the first decent pause I said, “Now I want to ask you something.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

His role in the middle of the park may often go under the radar, but he is the one stringing it all together.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

In 1975, he became a trainee cable installer, climbing poles and stringing cables.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Micron’s point in stringing together this alphabetical atrocity is that the market for one of its most lucrative products could see 40% yearly growth through 2028, from $35 billion to $100 billion.

From Barron's Jan. 2, 2026

It would be some five years before generative artificial intelligence would be out in the wild, stringing together words as well as many humans.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 22, 2025

She would borrow freely from the poems she’d heard, stringing words together like laundry on a line, connecting ideas and descriptions she couldn’t have planned.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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