String
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- Poor old Charlie Brown of Peanuts fame not only never manages to keep his kite in the air, but often ends up incapacitated by the kite string, ranging from a few strands wrapped around him to a huge snarl of twine that hides him completely from view.
Source: Unraveled Entanglement - Though technically invented in 1928, up until the 1960s it was common to see packages tied with string, as featured in "My Favourite Things" from The Sound of Music, and the logo used by UPS through the mid-2000s featured a twine-tied parcel.
Source: Newer Than They Think
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Twine and String. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/string/twine
String & Twine. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/string/twine>.
Twine or String. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/string/twine.
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