It takes an hour to get virtually anywhere in the traffic-choked capital, a skein of alleyways and dead ends.

NEWYORKER: Election, Monitored

Now these 'hoods are overlaid by a floating skein of twenty- to forty-somethings.

BBC: Neighbourhood spots in the nation's capital

Unravelling the skein of more than 1, 200 enterprises, and their government contracts, franchises, monopolies and sweetheart deals, could take years.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

Facebook's appeal to corporations does not speak of such a direct moment of commerce, but rather of a deep involvement within their skein of friends and passions.

FORBES

The director, Allen Baron, also stars as Frankie Bono, who arrives in New York the day before Christmas to do a job on a mid-level mobster and gets tangled in a skein of annoying practicalities.

NEWYORKER: Blast of Silence