string
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Related to pull the strings: come in handy, worse for wear, so much for, take account of, in line with, bevy of beauties
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stringed instruments
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string along with someone
string someone along
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a number of things placed or occurring one after the other
a restricting or modifying element
to put (objects) onto a fine continuous filament
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a lightweight cord
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stringed instruments that are played with a bow
a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
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a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
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a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
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a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
stretch out or arrange like a string
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