spiderweb

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Recent Examples of spiderweb Last year, a person cracked the shop’s glass window, causing spiderweb cracks. Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 12 May 2025 A little later, Coogler pointed out the clarity with which a small spiderweb fracture on a car windshield was visible. Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025 Bone collector caterpillars grow up to be moths, like most caterpillars do, but these moths tend to lay their eggs in a spiderweb’s nooks and crannies. Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2025 Underneath the harsh glow of streetlights, the Rev. Jeff Hood inspects a spiderweb woven between the trees hemming in the prison, the only thing that McAlester is really known for. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spiderweb
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiderweb
Noun
  • Your higher power can be an elephant or a cobweb in a corner.
    Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But when strung together in a cobweb of obfuscation, the result is bewilderment, not communication; suspicion, not trust.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But these products were accompanied by a labyrinth of names and uses: GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini and GPT-4.1; o1-mini and o1-pro; o3 and o3-pro and o4-mini; and so on.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • For over two decades, search engines have served as ubiquitous routers directing billions of clickers through the labyrinth of the internet.
    Perry Carpenter, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025

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“Spiderweb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiderweb. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.

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