on a string
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Kanchan Narayan, 44, uses a damp cloth-wrapped bottle hung on a string, cooling the drinking water inside via evaporation.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
Together, their students and postdocs collaborated on a string of papers pioneering chip-making techniques involving metal-organic frameworks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Polymers are made of many repeating units linked together, much like beads on a string.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026
In the second, he needed just four pitches to retire the side in order, capitalizing on a string of well-located offerings for a lightning-quick inning.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2025
He led me down the stairs like a lamb on a string.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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