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Recent Examples of filaments
Understanding how those filaments emerge is key to understanding how gas accumulates and ultimately collapses into new stars.
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Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 1 June 2026
The coating looks like a thick layer of unidentified filaments.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 22 May 2026
The team demonstrated this by printing soft lattices and wavy filaments that deform in dramatically different ways under heat.
—New Atlas, 19 May 2026
That means a course of action that targets everything from blackheads to excess sebum production to sebaceous filaments, the thin threads that tend to pop up on your nose, to even redness, which can cause skin to swell, enhancing the appearance of pores.
—Diana Tsui, Footwear News, 15 May 2026
Because of these long, tentacle-like filaments, Messier 77 is also known as the Squid Galaxy.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
Radio filaments, in particular, showcase the extreme collimation of material.
—Big Think, 4 May 2026
When a porcini is young, the mouths of the tubes are covered with tangled white hairlike filaments called hyphae.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
My current project, which began in Italian, has now shifted largely into English, but still contains filaments and elements of Italian.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 1 June 2026
The coating looks like a thick layer of unidentified filaments.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 22 May 2026
The team demonstrated this by printing soft lattices and wavy filaments that deform in dramatically different ways under heat.
—New Atlas, 19 May 2026
That means a course of action that targets everything from blackheads to excess sebum production to sebaceous filaments, the thin threads that tend to pop up on your nose, to even redness, which can cause skin to swell, enhancing the appearance of pores.
—Diana Tsui, Footwear News, 15 May 2026
Because of these long, tentacle-like filaments, Messier 77 is also known as the Squid Galaxy.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
Radio filaments, in particular, showcase the extreme collimation of material.
—Big Think, 4 May 2026
When a porcini is young, the mouths of the tubes are covered with tangled white hairlike filaments called hyphae.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
My current project, which began in Italian, has now shifted largely into English, but still contains filaments and elements of Italian.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filaments
Noun
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To improve stability, the grass for the World Cup has been studded with plastic fibers, sewn in about every five millimeters by a machine that looks like a Zamboni.—
Hana Kiros,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
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Synthetic fibers, stitched into the base, act like rebar for the natural grass, Sorochan says, helping stop the surface from tearing loose when players cut sharply or goalkeepers churn up the six-yard box.—
Chris Stokel-Walker,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
Noun
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Teamwork, Facebook threads, and something just weird enough to work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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Family, memory and unresolved histories form one of the strong thematic threads across the lineup.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
9 June 2026
Noun
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After his death, Ashe's lawyer DeMille (Oded Fehr) returns the video of Coop stealing that the billionaire had kept as blackmail, and wires Coop the $600 million that Coop had previously returned to Ashe's account.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
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Inmates reported limited access to hygiene supplies and noted that loose wires were hanging from the ceiling due to unfinished visitation kiosks during the first few days of operation.—
Ben Wheeler
June 4,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Filaments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filaments. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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