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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
Each insurance company seems to have its own labyrinth of portals and billing procedures.
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Paulina Wierzbicka,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, in a labyrinth of fortified tunnels outside the city of Natanz, centrifuges spun at speeds too fast for the eye to track.
In my experience, most sea salt sprays require some sort of trade-off: either tons of volume but tangles, or great wave definition but very little body.
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Ariel Wodarcyk,
Glamour,
26 June 2025
One of the most aggressive garden invaders, bindweed rapidly rambles through perennials and shrubs, creating a leafy tangle of stems and foliage.
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Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 June 2025
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