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as in chain
a series of things linked together
recounted the string of events that led to the murder
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as in to thread
to put together into a series by means of or as if by means of a thread
the prosecuting attorney strung the evidence together so that the accused man really did look guilty
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Recent Examples of string
Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Keyboardist Tim Lauer wrote a string arrangement that included a heat-inducing, descending glissando.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 18 June 2025
Paul Sutter, Space.com, 6 June 2025
The township officials strung Zhou along for months, then years.
—Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
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Noun
The ongoing Israeli Iranian conflict is only the latest in a string of Middle Eastern crises sub optimally managed by Beijing.
—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Keyboardist Tim Lauer wrote a string arrangement that included a heat-inducing, descending glissando.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 18 June 2025
Verb
In fact, this is the largest pattern found in nature, with galaxies clumping together to form clusters, stringing themselves along filaments that stretch tens of millions of light-years on a side, and extending along broad walls that separate vast regions of the universe from each other.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 6 June 2025
The township officials strung Zhou along for months, then years.
—Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for string
Noun
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Can't see Chism making it through the waiver wire given how heavily he was recruited as an UDFA.—
Chad Graff,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
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The incident Johnson attributed the incident to copper wire thieves — who were looking for copper in a place where there was none.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
Noun
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Long queues formed at gas stations across the city.—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 June 2025
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While some requests can be handled in-house, for those that need to be pushed out to other city departments will go immediately with no hold times or queues like there were before, according to Benjamin.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Increasingly, rather than targeting technology, criminals are striking directly at the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain, which is usually us humans.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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By the end of that year, Klarna had deals with roughly half of the country’s 100 largest chains.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
13 June 2025
Verb
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Apologies for injecting myself into this Sox fans thread.—
Steve Buckley,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
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One brave guy threaded his way across the traffic and went over and shook his hand, a handshake that caused applause from the crowd.—
Karen L. Rancourt,
Sun Sentinel,
16 June 2025
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From there, the group — which also included Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez, Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada and Andres Pineda-Mogollon — fashioned makeshift ropes from bedsheets and climbed out of a third-story window.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2025
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The driveway gate of the waist-high chain-link fence dividing the front yard from the sidewalk was bent and mangled, lashed to a metal fence pole with white rope.—
Connor Sheets,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
Noun
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In the meantime, the operator said it’s making progress on its remediation plan, including analysis of other areas and additional in-line inspections.—
Joe Sutton,
CNN,
10 Feb. 2023
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The goal of this relationship is to save you time, trouble, and money down the line.—
Brady Slack,
Forbes,
10 Feb. 2023
Noun
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Unlike traditional computing, which processes information in binary sequences, quantum computing harnesses the unique properties of quantum mechanics—superposition, entanglement and tunneling—to process complex information in entirely new ways.—
Markus Pflitsch,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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In a crucial chase sequence, Bond will have to deliver two hundred packages in a Honda Civic by 7 p.m. or risk unemployment.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
Verb
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The island would be connected to the mainland via a causeway that gave them access during low tide.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2025
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Rosner explains, citing the research of forest-ecologist Suzanne Simard, that trees are connected to one another via proximity, of course, but also through their underground root systems, where chemical substances are exchanged.—
John Baldoni,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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“String.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/string. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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