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Recent Examples of spidery
Recently, scientists studying Lucy’s cells determined that her astrocytes — spidery nerve cells critical for cellular communication — may be actively killing her neurons.
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Erin Allday,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Nov. 2022
The spidery lines of the reassembled pane are a careful worker’s diary of its destruction and reconstruction — and not a bad metaphor for the arc of Korean history in the 20th century.
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Los Angeles Times,
22 Sep. 2022
During this rain-heavy time, the falls go from a spidery trickle to a powerful force of nature that plunges off the cliffs toward the earth.
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Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Oct. 2021
With spidery legs and a chunky profile, the module, dubbed Spider, was all function, no form — the ideal machine to land on the moon.
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Discover Magazine,
1 Mar. 2019
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Erin Allday,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Nov. 2022
The spidery lines of the reassembled pane are a careful worker’s diary of its destruction and reconstruction — and not a bad metaphor for the arc of Korean history in the 20th century.
—
Los Angeles Times,
22 Sep. 2022
During this rain-heavy time, the falls go from a spidery trickle to a powerful force of nature that plunges off the cliffs toward the earth.
—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Oct. 2021
With spidery legs and a chunky profile, the module, dubbed Spider, was all function, no form — the ideal machine to land on the moon.
—
Discover Magazine,
1 Mar. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spidery
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Nick Boyd, guard, 6-1, Wisconsin A wiry guard who, like Saunders above, is already 25 years old, Boyd’s stat profile doesn’t jump off the page.
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Those themes are compelling on paper, but they’re expressed through a confusing mix of abstraction and hyper-local specificity, hidden beneath biker rock riffs, and obscured through Allbrook’s wiry, wailing vocal delivery.
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Despite thriving in shallow, weedy, mucky areas, snakeheads do not gravitate to decaying forage.
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To help prevent borers, keep weedy areas around the garden mowed well.
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Among them is, naturally, the stringy bikini look, and Kylie Jenner appears more than happy to kick off the season while soaking in every second of her dreamy Kylie Cosmetics trip.
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Everyone is bulbous, stringy, or malformed.
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Their twiggy legs and bony frames exposed in bathing suits, the kids do indeed look extra vulnerable within the film’s savage landscape.
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Hummingbirds need the safety of shrubs and twiggy trees to perch on.
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The soft, willowy branches bear red flower spikes on the tips in warm months.
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Shredded vegetables — carrot, ginger, papaya, shallot and cucumber, some pickled and some fresh — are arranged, per the original name, over top in willowy repose.
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Among those acolytes is Lucien (Jérémy Gillet), a reedy, repressed young virgin who yearns to be part of the gay community but hasn’t the courage to come out to his domineering mother Christine (Elisabeth Wiener), who also just happens to be the country’s very right-wing health minister.
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Firm if slightly sweaty handshake notwithstanding, there’s a gentleness to Root; old-school manners, slender shoulders and a reedy Sheffield twang.
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After some increasingly waspish bickering between Aleida and Irina, the group manages to agree once more on the importance of the Space Elevator and Titan mission succeeding unaffected by the ongoing protests.
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Spitting Image has delivered a typically waspish response after Deadline revealed this week that the show had been served with a lawsuit by the owners of Paddington Bear.
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In racy photos posted by Kardashian, the longtime Kardashian-Jenner family friend is seen toned and tanned, her hair messy.
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That reclassification, from racy growth stock to utility-like bedrock, is doing quiet work across the whole AI debt story.
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“Spidery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spidery. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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