spider's web
noun
US
: a network of sticky threads made by a spider and used as a resting place and a trap for food
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Public health is like a spider's web, highly sensitive to vibrations across its length and breadth, where damage in any one spot affects others across the whole fragile apparatus.
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Brian Castrucci, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Brian Castrucci, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Spider's web.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spider%27s%20web. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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