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It uses a string of LED lights laid along the track to signal to an athlete the exact rhythm he needs to break a record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

A Brave win had seemed unlikely for much of the evening after a sloppy fielding display in which they dropped a string of catches, including that of Voll in Bell's opening set.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Federov's six months at the helm in the defence ministry have coincided with a string of military successes for which the minister, not always fairly perhaps, is credited.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The Italian cable maker said the 10-year agreement was one of a string of new deals as it seeks to bolster its fiber capacity in the U.S. with a potential listing in the cards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

They brought two shields and put the governor between them, like a sandwich, then tied some string around it all.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Look at how he controlled the game and pulled the strings when Argentina chased England down in a dramatic semi-final.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Mr. Argue’s arrangements evoke that same sense of vulnerability, of raw emotion, blending bold sweeps of strings with spare passages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Among the most vicious battles is over the transition to “string pinsetting” where pins are attached to strings that make them easier to reset.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

I’m guessing that you could trace this “wall of honor” back to a fundraising department with one or two people, who may have been under pressure to raise funds, pulling the strings.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Using magic was like playing a gusli: anyone could pick up the instrument and strum the strings, but only a talented or trained bard could make real music with it.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

The wall paintings are adorned with candelabras, stringed instruments called lyres, white cranes and a delicate daisy.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

His grandfather was one of the first percussionists in the area and his grandmother played the oud, a lute-like stringed musical instrument common in the Middle East and Africa.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

The warm mahogany tones of the stringed instruments, that classic brass glow, made for a really nice color palette.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

Some stringed instruments — guitar for example — can use a capo36 to play in higher keys.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

"We want something sort of like a racehorse, a little bit high strung, a little bit forward -- something that's got a heart, that's going to run."

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

Base jumpers parachuted from its heights, and a performance artist recorded himself teetering along a 1-inch-wide slackline strung between two of the properties’ 40-story towers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Under the hood, chatbots and the A.I. bots they power are nothing but a series of static math computations strung together in rapid succession.

From Slate ● May 25, 2026

He addressed that immediately with Ruff and, without having to overhaul the roster, the Sabres strung together a 10-game winning streak that flipped their season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

A factory stood on a hill to one side, the field below filled with flimsy buildings arranged in a square, fencing and razor wire strung around the perimeter.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

His role in the middle of the park may often go under the radar, but he is the one stringing it all together.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Mboko was unfazed though, and soon adjusted to Ostapenko's pace, stringing together eight consecutive games to secure the opening set and a 5-0 advantage in the second.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

“He is stringing us along,” he said of the Russian leader.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2025

In her two-page ruling on Friday, Cannon said Newsmax’s lawyers inappropriately tried to build their case by stringing together allegations to compound their effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

Lio has told me that the nickname comes from El Jefe’s childhood habit of stringing bottle caps across his chest to look like medals.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez