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  • noun Plural form of twine.

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Examples

  • There were 20,000 'twines' at that point, with 1 million pieces of content having been added to the system.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2008

  • There were 20,000 'twines' at that point, with 1 million pieces of content having been added to the system.

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2008

  • ( '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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • She twines a length of the pearls around her fingers and smiles.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • She twines a length of the pearls around her fingers and smiles.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • He twines himself about the gravid apple tree's trunk caduceus-like, slithering his handsome head up into the canopy's gray-green leaves.

    Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler 2010

  • 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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