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How do you create and manage the many narrative threads required for a group of characters?

Their uneven threads showed potential for backing out or breaking, he said.

Some were blatantly inferior, he said, at times with metal shavings and burrs in the threads.

We all agreed that we should film the making of Allegiance as one of the present-day threads.

A leitmotif on journalism threads through this often-byzantine narrative.

In gonorrhoea gonococci are sometimes found in the sediment, but more commonly in the "gonorrheal threads," or "floaters."

Isabel longed for the time when she should enter them and pick up the threads dropped from her mother's nerveless fingers.

After peace was declared the new Marshal returned to Dalmatia and took up the threads of his old life.

And once Mother Oriole found, caught in the shutter, little threads of Hepzebiah's hair.

It is true, I could see them; but not with sufficient distinctness to insure the proper insertion of the initial threads.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to threads, such as: accouterment, apparel, attire, civvies, costume, and dress.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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