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Recent Examples of cat's cradle
The image on the Leopoldstadt playbill is of a young Jewish child playing with a cat's cradle.
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Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
But that string can still be made into something perfect: As Ludwig lovingly points out to his grand-nephews, the knots in the cat's cradle always stay the same distance apart no matter how the configuration is manipulated.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
But that string can still be made into something perfect: As Ludwig lovingly points out to his grand-nephews, the knots in the cat's cradle always stay the same distance apart no matter how the configuration is manipulated.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cat's cradle
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Mazes and labyrinths have been around for thousands of years.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
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Advertisement Also wading through the bureaucratic labyrinth was Dalal Al-Sumah.Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Zoom out: In addition to the maze, tickets grant access to a skating rink, an ice slide and ice bars.Torey Van Oot, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
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These collectors have just as much love for the maze of mechanicals beneath the surface as the trajectories the silver ball follows.Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2025
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Health insurance can involve a tangle of limitations due to provider networks, medical necessity rules and preauthorization requirements.Jay Feinman, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
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Struggling to keep track of a tangle of chargers while flying?Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
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Monsters snarl, roar, and go bump in the night, but the racist humans Atticus encounters are just as monstrous, and the contrast works.Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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One approach, adopted by Lynda Benglis, Urs Fischer, and Christopher Wool, involves digitally capturing a chance form—a squeeze of clay, a snarl of wire—then enlarging that scan to monumental proportions, both dramatizing and satirizing the superpowers that artists now have at their disposal.Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Cat's cradle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cat%27s%20cradle. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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