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Recent Examples of cobweb
Alex even put on a dress, short and black, held up by cobweb straps, identical in all but color to Mercy's and Lauren's.
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
Wu gok appear otherworldly, the result of the taro and wheat dough creating a cobweb-like structure when it’s fried.
—Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
Other people would send in their pictures of animals, food, art, flowers — anything that one considers beautiful to share with the world, including sunrises and a seed in a cobweb in Holland.
—Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2020
Each week, grow rooms, like the one pictured here, produce up to 4,400 pounds of mushrooms and mycelia, the cobweb-like membrane from which mushrooms sprout.
—Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
Wu gok appear otherworldly, the result of the taro and wheat dough creating a cobweb-like structure when it’s fried.
—Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
Other people would send in their pictures of animals, food, art, flowers — anything that one considers beautiful to share with the world, including sunrises and a seed in a cobweb in Holland.
—Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2020
Each week, grow rooms, like the one pictured here, produce up to 4,400 pounds of mushrooms and mycelia, the cobweb-like membrane from which mushrooms sprout.
—Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cobweb
Noun
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Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
14 Jan. 2026
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Deep cracks spiderweb across the earth.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Employees in bright teal polos walked the floor with smiles on their faces, ready to answer any of our questions or direct us through the labyrinth of a store.—
Katherine Polcari,
Southern Living,
7 Feb. 2026
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Round touch screens in various rooms took us through a labyrinth of tiny-text options just to set the temperature to 68 degrees.—
Jason Fried,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Cobweb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cobweb. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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