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[skayn] / skeɪn /


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It starts with a spark, created from an organ called a skein that previously lay dormant, that gives girls, and then women, the power to electrocute at will.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

Held in the mesh of gravity and spin, a skein of quantum magnetic charge, the Muon persists, outlives its foreseeable wobble.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 5, 2022

It’s dry, with apricot and pear flavors and a skein of minerality that carries the fruit through to a long, satisfying finish.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021

The two C’s in this third thread share not just a letter but also hooves and horns with Chapman from the first — a sign of the skein of connections Bell builds his novel around.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2021

Whenever I filled the bobbin, he quickly removed the skein and added it to the growing pile of gold.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff


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