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Recent Examples of stringy
And in 2026, USF researchers forecast another record for masses of the stringy stuff beaching in Florida.
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
The two women haven’t spoken in 10 years when Mother Mary shows up on Sam Anselm’s doorstep with sad eyes and stringy hair, like a lost dog who got caught in the rain, and her spurned BFF leaps at the chance to make the most of her leverage.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Apr. 2026
They’re made of pairs and trios of quarks that are bound together by stringy trails of gluons.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
It's typically dried rather than eaten raw, with a brittle shell and stringy pulp that's traditionally cracked open and steeped to make a mildly sweet, herbal tea.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
The two women haven’t spoken in 10 years when Mother Mary shows up on Sam Anselm’s doorstep with sad eyes and stringy hair, like a lost dog who got caught in the rain, and her spurned BFF leaps at the chance to make the most of her leverage.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Apr. 2026
They’re made of pairs and trios of quarks that are bound together by stringy trails of gluons.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
It's typically dried rather than eaten raw, with a brittle shell and stringy pulp that's traditionally cracked open and steeped to make a mildly sweet, herbal tea.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stringy
fibrous
Adjective
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But the squishies may also contain fibrous tremolite, a material better known as asbestos, in the filling.—
Parents,
Parents,
6 June 2026
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One ecological version of that idea holds that grass once helped wild canids clear intestinal worms—the fibrous strands wrap around the worms and carry them out in the droppings.—
Niranjana Rajalakshmi,
Popular Science,
4 June 2026
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“Stringy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stringy. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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