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U.S. crude-oil inventories rose unexpectedly last week, ending a string of five straight weekly withdrawals amid higher imports and a decline in exports, according to data released Thursday by the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

She also faces a string of other charges, including corruption allegations.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Walliams and Lucas won a string of awards for Little Britain including three Baftas and two International Emmys, and the programme was watched by 10 million people in the UK.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Two months later, in a recorded call, an inmate in Rodriguez’s module read off the string of numbers that were later decoded to be a request for Pringles, according to investigators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

I hissed, fumbling with the string at my neck.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Physicist Yiwen Chu and her team have developed a system that uses microscopic mechanical vibrations to store and manipulate quantum information, much like the vibrating strings of a guitar produce musical notes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

Without leaving that underlying harmony, Wagner sets the music increasingly in motion, until the strings ripple and surge in ever quicker waves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Jenkins said her favourite part of the show was the deli counter, hung with salami, Parma ham, lemons, chillies and strings of onions and garlic.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Transfers are authorised using "private keys" -- long strings of characters kept secret.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Players of both bowed and plucked strings generally find fingerings and tuning to be easier in sharp keys, while woodwind and brass players often find flat keys more comfortable and in tune.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

As she experiments between strumming up and down, the forceful strike gives the stringed instrument a more percussive feel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

His grandfather was one of the first percussionists in the area and his grandmother played the oud, a lute-like stringed musical instrument common in the Middle East and Africa.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

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

In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Or you strung along a subpar water heater for an extra year or two because of other household emergencies.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

What these apps do best is lay bare the ways in which our entire economy is structured like a betting app strung together by incentive perverts.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

The grass is being measured, the rackets strung and the strawberries and cream prepped.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

But it was generations of American workers who strung the telegraph wire, laid the railroad tracks, and built the interstate highways and buried the fiber.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 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

Official-sounding email addresses floated around, offering bookings and stringing people along before asking for large payments.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

"That they wouldn't just keep stringing people along, they'd be straight-forward and say whether the site has a future or not."

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Vast periods of this play-off went by without Rangers stringing more than four and five passes together.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

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