Their milk looks and tastes like the real thing, but once its proteins are filtered and purified into a fine white powder, they can be spun into tough thread.

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Two other pieces exemplify what Rosenthal calls "thread" rings: Minute diamonds are set into fine gold and platinum wires threaded around the finger.

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The fungus itself consists of an almost microscopically fine web called a mycelium, made up of long, thread-like structures usually buried beneath the soil.

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At times, Bishop's size appeared to force the Devils to be too fine with their shots, as if they were trying to thread the puck through whatever sliver of space that flashed across their eyes.

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