thrust
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Powell said he was going to “keep his head down” as a governor, and this would thrust him into the spotlight.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
Netball is one of the Commonwealth Games' great sports, and Glasgow 2026 will thrust it into the spotlight again: sinew-stretching athleticism, pinpoint shooting, frantic end-to-end pace.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
It bothered Lacy, a serious artist who wrote with Kendrick Lamar and earned a Grammy nomination as a teenager in the R&B collective The Internet, suddenly thrust into living meme territory with “Bad Habit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
As an ordinary man thrust into a world of monsters and maniacs, Neill is inherently playing with ideas about art and celebrity that reflect his own career.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
He thrust his sword in the sky and thunder shook the valley.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
During a typical session, he does supersets of barbell hip thrusts, planks and walking lunges with 30-pound dumbbells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
This breakup thrusts her into a public battle for her emotional security, and that would be the case regardless of whether she made it public.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026
The ruling thrusts the global trade economy into new and unfamiliar terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
If the blockage has not cleared, the NHS says the helper should try abdominal thrusts.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
He had swum to the raft, put his head against it and was pushing it forward with heavy thrusts of his back legs.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
By-elections have a habit of thrusting a constituency into the limelight and for five or six weeks part of Essex has again found itself at the centre of a media storm.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
"The spacecraft is in great shape, and we're on schedule to resume sustained thrusting with the solar-electric propulsion system later this fall."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
That milestone was also recently hit by Samsung Electronics and US chipmaker Micron -- with AI thrusting the three memory chip firms into a previously exclusive club of around a dozen companies, nearly all American.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
As amiable as the movie is from the jump, it wastes no time thrusting viewers into a world in complete peril, refusing to sugarcoat the modern realities of a once-robust industry.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
Something large and loud in the center of the painting had the hind legs of a goat, fur like grated bone, solid thighs, their surface thrusting toward the ceiling of the studio.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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