1
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
For knitters, Ewe 2 Yarn may be one of the cutest yarn shops in the Lone Star State.
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Jill Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
When the yarn is dry, twist the pieces together in the middle and glue them to the front of the egg, about halfway down.
—Annabelle Canela, Parents, 14 Mar. 2026
Cut pile carpeting On the other hand, cut pile carpeting is made of cut loops of yarn.
—Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
Pale blue yarn stretched from the loom to a warping peg affixed to the lip of a Fender Deluxe Reverb amplifier, now requisitioned as part of the weaving setup.
—Hazlitt, 11 Mar. 2026
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Jill Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
When the yarn is dry, twist the pieces together in the middle and glue them to the front of the egg, about halfway down.
—Annabelle Canela, Parents, 14 Mar. 2026
Cut pile carpeting On the other hand, cut pile carpeting is made of cut loops of yarn.
—Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
Pale blue yarn stretched from the loom to a warping peg affixed to the lip of a Fender Deluxe Reverb amplifier, now requisitioned as part of the weaving setup.
—Hazlitt, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yarn
Noun
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Jude relocates this tale of troubled conscience to present-day Cluj-Napoca, in Transylvania, and subjects it to a corrosively cynical twist.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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My confidence was further bolstered when Zenker informed me about Beau Miles, an adventure filmmaker known for documenting his self-experiments, who, back in 2020, when an entirely different disaster descended upon us, ate only beans for 40 days (191 cans to be exact)—and lived to tell the tale.—
Ayana Underwood,
Outside,
27 Mar. 2026
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For more than four decades, the Korean immigrant has worked at the shop near Travis Air Force Base, hearing countless stories of loss, sacrifice and heartbreak from military families and service members.—
Kenny Choi,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Paxton told stories about running for office for the first time and his 2023 impeachment.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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Two Prosecutors is based on a novella by Georgy Demidov, a physicist who spent 18 years in Soviet prison camps and was rehabilitated in the late 1950s, only to then have his work seized by the authorities; most of his writings were only published following his death in 1987.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2026
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The stories in this collection range from a novella from her post-apocalyptic Sixth World series to a science fiction piece about a conflicted student attending university on a space station.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
20 Mar. 2026
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The sheer amount of dim-witted gangsters running around, with names like Dumbass Tony and Roid Rage Ryan, also keep the narrative lighthearted and just bizarre enough.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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Luxury thrives on narrative authority.—
Sudhir Gupta,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Yarn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yarn. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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