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However, the report concluded that “this substance clumps together in stool, causing long, stringy structures to form,” which made the patients think they were passing worms when they were not.

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In the film’s third act, Manville appears as the eccentric Doctor Cotter, a botanist living in the South American jungle in the 1950s, whose stringy, gray hair is almost long enough to trail behind her.

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In this case: a stringy slot corner who never had been credited for a sack in his college career.

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If your cooked lobster is too stringy or tough, that means it’s been overcooked.

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Snake was tall and skinny, and Newt was short and freckled, with long, stringy braids.

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

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