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[web] / wɛb /


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In Spirostomum, the myonemes form a fishnet-shaped web around the outside of the organism.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

Chatfield hired Jennifer Szabo as his web developer early on to make the Farmworker Movement Documentation Project.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

The collaboration brings together two advocates of the open web and open-weight models, which are publicly available for anyone to download and modify.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Dario Amodei published a blog post warning that more A.I. agents going “rogue” could soon take over the entire web, then went on various news shows to keep harping the message.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2026

The sum total of these chains makes a web in which every work of art occupies its own specific place.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

In some frontline Ukrainian cities, nets are hung high and wide across long stretches of road, forming corridors like spiders' webs to thwart aerial attacks.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

They form webs of businesses without storefronts that are owned by other businesses, passing vast sums of money back and forth and even overseas with minimal oversight.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

“Finding Emily,” which attempts to attract Gen Z to a romcom in which nobody fires webs out his wrists, seeks to update a trusted formula.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

He said he spent his childhood pulling the Spidey poses and shooting webs, and now being able to portray him is "the best feeling ever".

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

They were braced in place by a horizontal girder, to which iron columns and webs were riveted.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The revolution will not be televised, but it might have webbed feet and bulging eyes.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2025

Back in the forest, a Wallace’s flying frog sprang from a tree—its spindly legs and webbed toes spread-eagle—seeming more bat than amphibian.

From National Geographic Jan. 23, 2024

Their feet are adapted for powerful swimming, with every toe webbed.

From Seattle Times Jan. 21, 2024

While tarantulas wait below with their eight eyes pointed skyward, trapdoor spiders build a webbed door and fling it open when the unsuspecting prey walks by.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 12, 2023

He sits motionless, propped up in bed, deathwhite hands folded on top of the covers: his eyes, once webbed with visions, are shut.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

The local authority advised people not to be concerned about the "harmless" white webbing seen in trees in Belle Isle Park, Exeter, caused by an infestation of caterpillars.

From BBC May 13, 2026

B-net is temporary and closer to webbing that’s aimed at absorbing the kinetic energy of a falling skier.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 15, 2026

In the next at-bat, they took their first lead when a two-hopper from Gavin Lux went through — literally — the webbing of the glove of Padres first baseman Jake Cronenworth.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2024

When baby spiders are born, they produce silk webbing that is light enough to be picked up by the wind, allowing them to float away and land elsewhere, colonizing new habitats.

From Washington Times Oct. 5, 2023

The two men stood at either end of the gunnel roller, Art with one shoe on the beaver paddle and Abel Martinson staring at the net webbing as it traveled slowly toward the drum.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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