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Using the hook attachment, beat on medium until dough is smooth and elastic but stringy, 5 minutes.
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Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2025
In the dressing room, after applying lipstick and rouge, Kaliardos plopped a wig of long, stringy brown hair on Costanzo’s head.
—Henry Alford, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Some of the pastas from the Middle East have a lot more egg in them and are stringy.
—Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Mumbies makes its products from bark from coffee trees and stringy fibrous husk of coconut shells.
—La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2025
In the dressing room, after applying lipstick and rouge, Kaliardos plopped a wig of long, stringy brown hair on Costanzo’s head.
—Henry Alford, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Some of the pastas from the Middle East have a lot more egg in them and are stringy.
—Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Mumbies makes its products from bark from coffee trees and stringy fibrous husk of coconut shells.
—La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stringy
fibrous
Adjective
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Asbestos is a fibrous material that was previously used in building materials due to its resistance to fire, heat and corrosion.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Mechanical recycling degrades polymer quality and can’t handle colored, multi-layer, or fibrous PET; chemical routes consume high energy and often yield intermediate monomers that require more processing.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Stringy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stringy. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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