thread
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But energy is still the thread running through all of it, said Mendez.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026
His thread on X has hundreds of thousands of reposts.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026
Laying these names out in a line, it’s hard to miss the connecting thread.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
She said there was a "thread" of "dominance, control and lack of accountability" in Potier's behaviour.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
In his hand was a tiny parcel, of brown paper and thin green thread.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Initially declared a success with "no visible alteration" to the 70-metre-long tapestry following its arrival, France last week said two broken threads were spotted during a full condition check.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
It was just too much of a nightmare to leave something half done, when I knew how hard it would be to pick up the threads in another week or month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Twenty-four minutes later, the tops were craggy, the centers soft and brownie-like, and just enough little green threads remained visible to remind you what season it was.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Epner cited other themes, including healthcare in America, as potential narrative threads that could sway a jury in Mangione's favour.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Anya sighed and searched the air for threads.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Researchers have now shown that specially shaped light can act as a similar type of threaded probe, interacting differently with molecules depending on their handedness.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Salonen’s own music, much of it new to L.A., was threaded throughout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
That time, he beat his defender down the left flank and threaded a pass to Balogun right in front of the net for a tap-in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
She pulled threads from moonlight and threaded the magic between her fingertips.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Far from simply pressing a button, film projectionists must actively guide a screening, threading and splicing reels and closely monitoring for mechanical issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
By threading Celan’s poems through the lived record, Ms. Arno restores a proud, wounded, flirtatious, multilingual man often romanticized by reverence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The results showed that magnetic fields threading through the surrounding gas can help draw protostars closer together.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
Fury upped the tempo in the latter rounds, varying his attack and threading in several uppercuts, but Makhmudov absorbed them without ever really being shaken.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
He could feel every vein and artery in his body threading fire through his frame, if it was not ice that they pumped: he could not tell.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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Vocabulary lists containing thread
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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