on a string
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They connect together like beads on a string to form the proteins needed by living organisms.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
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
There were always stockings and pink rayon knickers with holes in them hung on a string across the room to dry.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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