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as in chain
a series of things linked together
recounted the string of events that led to the murder
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as in to thread
to put together into a series by means of or as if by means of a thread
the prosecuting attorney strung the evidence together so that the accused man really did look guilty
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Recent Examples of string
Pcmag Staff, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Another showed string lights crisscrossing the ceiling of the crawl space, illuminating the area.
—Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2025
The Sun are putting the pieces together more consistently — and for longer in-game stretches — than at any other point this year with three of their six wins coming in the last three weeks, but Connecticut is the only team in the league that has yet to string two successful performances together.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Govee is known for its colorful smart bulbs and already makes some of our favorite outdoor string lights.
—Pcmag Staff, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Another showed string lights crisscrossing the ceiling of the crawl space, illuminating the area.
—Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
Then they must be strung and snapped into bite-size lengths or shelled out individually—all by hand.
—Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2025
The Sun are putting the pieces together more consistently — and for longer in-game stretches — than at any other point this year with three of their six wins coming in the last three weeks, but Connecticut is the only team in the league that has yet to string two successful performances together.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for string
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Staff and wire reports LONDON – Britain's Prince Harry visited Ukraine on Friday, arriving in Kyiv with a team from his Invictus Games Foundation to detail his charity's plans to help rehabilitate wounded soldiers, the Guardian and ABC News reported.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships, products and purchases across the sports business industry.—
Sportico Staff,
Sportico.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The crowds thinned, the queues got easier, and the audiences lost their initial edge-of-seat poise, relaxing back into their seats.—
Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
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As long as buyers and sellers continue the 75-year trend of negotiating against the Nielsen data, the league will have to join the queue with everyone else who expresses dissatisfaction with the company’s audience-measurement system.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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With masses equivalent to millions or even billions of suns, supermassive black holes are too massive to have been born from dying stars; instead, it is theorized that they are created when smaller black holes collide and merge, and a chain of progressively larger and larger mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The investment group also includes the Cherng Family Trust, the family office of the co-founders of the Panda Express restaurant chain, according to Friday’s statement.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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For example, the undulating landscape of the Chinese Hillside Garden is threaded with meandering paths that wind through a woodland of conifer trees and beside a narrow stream with a small waterfall.—
Jeanine Barone,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Ugarte then threads the ball to Amad, who misses the target, but is flagged offside anyway.—
Ahmed Walid,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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Rodriguez caught Valkyria on the top rope and finished her off wit ha Tejada Bomb.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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For Cora and Sam, one half of each of those couples, that connection lives like a rope between them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Browns swarming Joe Burrow for sacks on three consecutive plays in the fourth quarter, driving the Bengals back from the 20 to their own goal line, was an incredible show of force created by a front four that will only improve with more time together.—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Its core software dates back to the early 1980s, and only a few programmers remain who understand the intricacies of its more than 60 million lines of code.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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Costumed characters move in dreamlike sequences.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The arrow sequence, though, has a connection to video gaming, recognizably originating in a game called Helldivers 2, a science-fiction narrative similar to Robert Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers that covers fascistic themes.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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CitizenShipper connects pet owners with drivers who specialize in transporting animals.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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The fourth episode depicts him as a negligent and emotionally abusive lover to Satan, further connecting him to the show’s previous portrayals of Saddam Hussein.—
Nick Marx,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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“String.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/string. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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