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as in tale
a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally
Grandpa likes to tell yarns about when he was young
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as in story
a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel
a ripping yarn about space travel and alien monsters
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Recent Examples of yarn
The acrylic-yarn palette of fuchsia, cyan, chartreuse, and orange is closer to a slot machine mid-spin or a glitch on a TV screen than to traditional patterning.
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María Carri, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026
The yarn loops of the terry cloth are densely packed, which contributes to the squish factor.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 Apr. 2026
And knitting meant clumsily looping a strand of acrylic yarn onto the tip of a bamboo needle, groaning, then handing the project to my mother for help.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
Parkdale Mills, a century-old yarn manufacturer based in Gastonia, announced two layoffs and facility closures this year.
—Desiree Mathurin
april 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2026
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María Carri, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026
The yarn loops of the terry cloth are densely packed, which contributes to the squish factor.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 Apr. 2026
And knitting meant clumsily looping a strand of acrylic yarn onto the tip of a bamboo needle, groaning, then handing the project to my mother for help.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
Parkdale Mills, a century-old yarn manufacturer based in Gastonia, announced two layoffs and facility closures this year.
—Desiree Mathurin
april 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yarn
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The most obvious answer was that the story, on a deeper level, needed to be timeless, a tale of a desperate person facing moral dilemmas of increasing extremity while trying to hold fast to their values.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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The children participated in Disney+'s 2025 documentary Lost in the Jungle, which recounted their tale of survival, per The New York Times.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
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Made in response to a difficult breakup, the work alludes to two lovers parting ways, but also to Pau’s memories of isolation as a severely asthmatic child in a notoriously polluted city, lying in bed staring at the wall and inventing stories to distract herself from the difficulty of breathing.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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The $30 million, 28-story towers contained 3,000 rooms, an 18-hole rooftop miniature golf course complete with sand traps and its own hospital.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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The Hellraiser franchise, based on Clive Barker’s 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, includes 11 movies, with the most recent being released in 2022.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
3 May 2026
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The structural problems reveal themselves early, as the revolution that defined Orwell’s novella is dispatched by minute 6.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
30 Apr. 2026
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Yet as CEOs search for ways to control their own narrative in an era of always-on social media and pressure from artificial intelligence, the once‑stodgy earnings call is morphing into a new kind of corporate performance designed to be watched, clipped, and shared.—
Rachel Ventresca,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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Now that Princess Eugenie has announced her new pregnancy, there have been questions about how this new baby changes the narrative around the royal, particularly considering the scandal surrounding both her parents.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
6 May 2026
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“Yarn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yarn. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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