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- noun Plural form of
twine .
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Examples
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There were 20,000 'twines' at that point, with 1 million pieces of content having been added to the system.
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There were 20,000 'twines' at that point, with 1 million pieces of content having been added to the system.
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( 'twines') of interest in order both to post material of their own and to receive updates from other members of the twine.
Planet RDF 2008
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Hence the obsessive behavior of those afflicted (that continues after death), the irresistible draw of the spiral, the self-destruction, the way the spiral twines and intertwines.
intertribal: Lucy in the Sky with Spirals intertribal 2010
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Hence the obsessive behavior of those afflicted (that continues after death), the irresistible draw of the spiral, the self-destruction, the way the spiral twines and intertwines.
Lucy in the Sky with Spirals intertribal 2010
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For that project, he twines together house godfather Mr. Fingers, upcoming producer Rick "Poppa" Howard, and even the outré space jazz pioneer Sun Ra, and made it all sound of a piece.
The Pop Scene: Idols—Official and Unofficial Andy Beta 2012
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She twines a length of the pearls around her fingers and smiles.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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She twines a length of the pearls around her fingers and smiles.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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He twines himself about the gravid apple tree's trunk caduceus-like, slithering his handsome head up into the canopy's gray-green leaves.
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It braids and twines and tumbles into the wash and the wash swells with a muscular torrent that gathers speed with the unhurried inexorability of a freight train that blows no warning whistle when it crosses—and takes out—the road.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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