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Recent Examples of cat's cradleThe image on the Leopoldstadt playbill is of a young Jewish child playing with a cat's cradle.—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
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Toni Sutton,
People.com,
10 July 2025
By the 20th century, Rome was like any other city, with trains and cars that let people live farther from the urban center and a tangle of highways and suburbs and shopping centers that sprawled far beyond the original fortified walls.
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Krista Langlois,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2025
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