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Recent Examples of filament
The cyanobacteria form sticky filaments that act like glue in sandy desert soil, creating a clumpy, crusty surface where fungi and other bacteria take hold.
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Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
By then, in the spiral arms of the concentrated thin disk, gas had gathered into long threads—bones, waves, splits, filaments—along which stars lit up in clusters.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
Seeking the cosmic web Initially, the researchers were looking for something else using LOFAR: the wispy filaments of the cosmic web.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
Some clear glass halos and discs hang in space, suspended on filament.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
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Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
By then, in the spiral arms of the concentrated thin disk, gas had gathered into long threads—bones, waves, splits, filaments—along which stars lit up in clusters.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
Seeking the cosmic web Initially, the researchers were looking for something else using LOFAR: the wispy filaments of the cosmic web.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
Some clear glass halos and discs hang in space, suspended on filament.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for filament
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Re-imagining the Wheel Due to their size and the presence of whorls, the pebbles were likely used as an early version of a spinning wheel to gather up fibers like wool or flax and transform it into yarn.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2024
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Cotton fibers are hollow inside, and carry a slight negative charge.Wes Siler, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2024
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After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas pedal.Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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The Remove tool has a drop-down menu that identifies wires and cables or people in the image that take attention away from your subject.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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Their attitudes about the direction of the country also creates frictions in their friendship, a poignant emotional thread that the filmmaker approaches with admirable subtlety.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
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Three more benchmarks stress the CPU, using all available cores and threads to rate a PC's suitability for processor-intensive workloads.PCMAG, PCMAG, 16 Nov. 2024
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“Filament.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filament. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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