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as in tale
a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally
Grandpa likes to tell yarns about when he was young
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as in story
a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel
a ripping yarn about space travel and alien monsters
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Recent Examples of yarn
These days, everyone is picking up a pair of needles and yarn.
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Katelyn Chef, Martha Stewart, 29 Dec. 2025
The sheep provide wool for yarn and clothing that the Shakers sell, linking labor directly to survival.
—Meredith Nierman, NPR, 23 Dec. 2025
This piece was made with linen, paper yarns, silk and cotton fabric.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
CashSoft, a proprietary yarn with the feel of cashmere but not the price of it, was introduced.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 19 Dec. 2025
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Katelyn Chef, Martha Stewart, 29 Dec. 2025
The sheep provide wool for yarn and clothing that the Shakers sell, linking labor directly to survival.
—Meredith Nierman, NPR, 23 Dec. 2025
This piece was made with linen, paper yarns, silk and cotton fabric.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
CashSoft, a proprietary yarn with the feel of cashmere but not the price of it, was introduced.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 19 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yarn
Noun
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The podcast is a fascinating artifact, the tale of a woman still untangling her role as both victim and victimizer.—
Jillian Steinhauer,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
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What unfolds is not just a thriller about biotechnology run amok, but a cautionary tale about a culture where the line between health and the pursuit of a narrow beauty ideal is troublingly blurry.—
Virgie Tovar,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This two-story house provides a generous living space with its five bedrooms and four baths.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Durden’s journey with the Patriots starts, like most great stories, at the very bottom.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
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And since Freida McFadden’s book series that the movie is based on has three installments (plus one novella), this may not be the end.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Art of Conjuring is the first novella to be released by the press.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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The national project of maintaining the white nuclear family, which has really been taken up in the 1940s as a way for certain political groups to organize, is able to find a lot of historical references in Minnesota that fit that narrative.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Jury prizes will be awarded in the categories of domestic and international narrative and non-fiction films, shorts, and the NEXT sidebar (which promotes innovative approaches to storytelling).—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Yarn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yarn. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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