yarn
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The forced-labor tariff will push duties on the yarn to 37.5%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Much of the stitched masterpiece, which is actually coloured yarn embroidered on linen rather than a woven tapestry, is currently covered up in giant polyester sheeting, to protect it from light damage.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
This is still above all a lovely, soft yarn about crime-solving farm animals, some of them voiced by Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, and the guy who plays Roy Kent on “Ted Lasso.”
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
"I had a ball of yarn in my belt bag and cast on my first stitch as soon as I crossed the starting line," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
Baskets upon baskets of wool and yarn were stacked in perilous towers.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Coppola’s use of archival footage brings Jacobs’ yarns to life.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
Kelbourne Woolens, for one, delayed the release of two new yarns Kelley had hoped to launch this year because of the trade uncertainty.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
Works such as “Treasure Island” and “Kidnapped,” still read today, exemplify the Scottish author’s gift for yarns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Other knitters won’t be so dedicated, and either turn to lower-quality, less sustainable yarns like acrylic or polyester, or get priced out of the hobby entirely.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2025
Balthilda had me hold her yarns so they wouldn’t tangle as she knit, and sometimes I would arrange Hadel’s yarns according to their shades.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama.
From Time Magazine Archive
As usually happens when I sit down with Marlow, we yarned.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were very happy in our party, and when cooking we all sang and yarned, nobody ever seemed tired once we got quit of the motors.
From South with Scott by Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Baron Mountevans
Our men in their trenches were cleaning rifles, packing away spare kit, yarning there much as they yarned of old over the stockyard fence or the gate of the horse paddock.
From Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean
The men squatted stoically, and smoked and yarned.
From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It’s like a late-night D&M with a mate – only the mate is Nick Cave and we’re yarning with the lights up amid a cast of thousands.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2019
The present collection of rural yarning is a useful reminder that Caldwell, 57, is one of the best short-story tellers in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
In some parts it is just about the best baseball yarning since the late great Ring Lardner put the cover on his typewriter.
From Time Magazine Archive
None surpasses the Sage of Burwash at yarning in dialects of all sorts.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I drive folks around and I hear them yarning.
From The Son of his Father by Ridgwell Cullum
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