on a string
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These nucleosomes connect like beads on a string and fold into chromatin fibers.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
The display also featured Dahl's personal set of boules, along with his own invention of a magnet on a string, which Dahl used for picking up each boule.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025
At one point all of the magicians spontaneously do a show for one another, each of them taking part in a can-you-top-this series of illusions strung as close together as popcorn on a string.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
The single combat involves swinging a conker -- a hardened horse chestnut -- on a string at your opponent's nut with murderous venom, until one is smashed to pieces.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
Mr. Flournoy came forward like a puppet on a string.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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