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string

noun as in long fiber

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Strong matches

noun as in succession, series

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Hamas fighters have conducted a string of attacks on Israeli forces located along the yellow line since the cease-fire came into effect.

This time, the U.A.E. has shipped arms into Sudan to shore up the RSF after a string of setbacks that culminated with the militia losing control of the capital, Khartoum, in March.

Maybe everything turns out fine, but there’s a string of other maybes where it doesn’t.

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Mr. Pärt—using small female, male and mixed choirs and divided strings—makes the text hypnotic, a balm even, and on this occasion it proved a sublimely fitting end to programs whose throughline was solace.

His 2023 release, “The Other One”—for which he conducted an ensemble including saxophones, bassoons, strings, percussion and piano—landed on the year-end best-of lists of several classical music critics.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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