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Recent Examples of spiderweb
Her tentacles are like wisps of spiderweb, each with an ocellus (an eye) at its base.
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Longreads, 5 Feb. 2026
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
Deep cracks spiderweb across the earth.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
The sale includes ghost, candy corn, spiderweb, skull, and bat icon glasses, and each set includes four glasses.
—Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Longreads, 5 Feb. 2026
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
Deep cracks spiderweb across the earth.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
The sale includes ghost, candy corn, spiderweb, skull, and bat icon glasses, and each set includes four glasses.
—Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiderweb
Noun
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Fit that is found in the body at rest, or the cobweb where the broom will not reach.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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Your higher power can be an elephant or a cobweb in a corner.—
Calvin Tomkins,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The pair helped the sick find medicine and guided others through the labyrinth of municipal bureaucracy.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
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This 277-mile labyrinth of red crag in northern Arizona is like an ancient time capsule, with rocks on the canyon floor dating back some 2 billion years—well before the dinosaurs.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 2026
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“Spiderweb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiderweb. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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