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Recent Examples of cobweb
Wu gok appear otherworldly, the result of the taro and wheat dough creating a cobweb-like structure when it’s fried.
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Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
Other people would send in their pictures of animals, food, art, flowers — anything that one considers beautiful to share with the world, including sunrises and a seed in a cobweb in Holland.
—Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2020
Each week, grow rooms, like the one pictured here, produce up to 4,400 pounds of mushrooms and mycelia, the cobweb-like membrane from which mushrooms sprout.
—Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
Alex even put on a dress, short and black, held up by cobweb straps, identical in all but color to Mercy's and Lauren's.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
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Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
Other people would send in their pictures of animals, food, art, flowers — anything that one considers beautiful to share with the world, including sunrises and a seed in a cobweb in Holland.
—Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2020
Each week, grow rooms, like the one pictured here, produce up to 4,400 pounds of mushrooms and mycelia, the cobweb-like membrane from which mushrooms sprout.
—Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
Alex even put on a dress, short and black, held up by cobweb straps, identical in all but color to Mercy's and Lauren's.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cobweb
Noun
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They get tangled up in trees and power lines; one image from the front shows a street crisscrossed by what looks like a giant spiderweb.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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The final paragraph of Gallant’s story refers to a spiderweb.—
Jhumpa Lahiri,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
Noun
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That is why this fiction is not built on facts, but rather on traversing the labyrinths of memory.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
15 July 2025
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No matter how complicated the labyrinth of modern politics becomes, that thread will lead us through.—
Linda McMahon,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 July 2025
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“Cobweb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cobweb. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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