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: something suggesting the twists or coils of a skein : tangle
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: a flock of wildfowl (such as geese or ducks) in flight
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Charles Usher,
Midwest Living,
26 May 2026
The skein of stock success has ended.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 May 2026
The food is rustic and cosmopolitan at once — bright, monumental salads, whole carrots and leeks baptized by fire, skeins of pasta, and Parmigiano snowing down — but the secret is the seeming effortlessness.
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Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
The Japanese quartet take Ra’s skein of electronic noise as a starting point, wrapping it in a sizzling no wave funk beat, vocals that veer between incantatory and goofy, and bewitching mandalas of chimes and gongs.
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Reed Jackson,
SPIN,
24 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Its shop, housed in an 1890 schoolhouse, sells beautiful knitwear, jewelry, and home goods by the school’s students and instructors, plus skeins of yarn.
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Charles Usher,
Midwest Living,
26 May 2026
The skein of stock success has ended.
—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 May 2026
The food is rustic and cosmopolitan at once — bright, monumental salads, whole carrots and leeks baptized by fire, skeins of pasta, and Parmigiano snowing down — but the secret is the seeming effortlessness.
—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
The Japanese quartet take Ra’s skein of electronic noise as a starting point, wrapping it in a sizzling no wave funk beat, vocals that veer between incantatory and goofy, and bewitching mandalas of chimes and gongs.
—
Reed Jackson,
SPIN,
24 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for skein
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“Skein.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skein. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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