yarn
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My reaction was this: “Not this same old yarn again.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 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
Much of the stuff of modern life, from nylon yarn to PVC pipes to acrylic paint, ultimately comes from fossil fuels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
Thought to be made from a cattle femur, this decorated Anglo-Saxon spindle whorl, used to provide weight while spinning yarn, was unearthed from farmland near Bishopstone, Buckinghamshire.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
The yarn Josie had dropped flew up and disappeared high overhead.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Vocabulary lists containing yarn
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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Stories of Ourselves
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