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Recent Examples of spiderweb
Picture a spiderweb roughly half the size of a tennis court.
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Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Mar. 2026
From orbit, the intersecting ridges resemble a massive spiderweb sprawled across the Martian surface.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Her tentacles are like wisps of spiderweb, each with an ocellus (an eye) at its base.
—Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Longreads, 5 Feb. 2026
Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
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Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Mar. 2026
From orbit, the intersecting ridges resemble a massive spiderweb sprawled across the Martian surface.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Her tentacles are like wisps of spiderweb, each with an ocellus (an eye) at its base.
—Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Longreads, 5 Feb. 2026
Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiderweb
Noun
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Fit that is found in the body at rest, or the cobweb where the broom will not reach.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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Your higher power can be an elephant or a cobweb in a corner.—
Calvin Tomkins,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
Noun
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This is the reality of the women’s leadership labyrinth.—
Savanah F.S. Bray,
Fortune,
22 June 2026
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The process currently requires navigating a labyrinth of national rail systems, but that frustration is about to end as the European Commission recently unveiled an ambitious new plan for train travel that seamlessly combines services from multiple rail operators across all 27 EU nations.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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“Spiderweb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiderweb. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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