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thrust

[thruhst] / θrʌst /




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Is it surprising that, in today’s culture of self-promotion, a man suddenly thrust into the center of a global pandemic would occasionally reveal pride and vanity in a private journal?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 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

The sale marks the end of a turbulent chapter for the estate, which was thrust into the spotlight in March 2024 when Homeland Security agents raided the property as part of their investigation into Combs.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 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

Instead of jumping, he swiveled his head and with a thrust of his antlers, cast the shadows back through the portal.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

It’s why Carson Zone is at the gym every Monday and Friday, grunting into weighted hip thrusts and pushing through heavy staggered lunges.

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

But this is made complex by his vast cast of characters whose minds he often thrusts in and out of — sometimes even between individual sentences or paragraphs.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2026

The arrangement with Meta thrusts AMD into more direct competition with Broadcom, the world’s biggest designer of the custom chips.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2026

She also vowed to learn how to peform the Heimlich manoeuvre - which involves abdominal thrusts from behind - "in case I ever come across anybody who needs my help".

From BBC Nov. 24, 2025

Pattie thrusts a detailed list into Dell's hands and orders him to the market.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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

Erosion has eaten away at the course for years, Jan Companies says, thrusting its financial future into uncertainty.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

But instead, there were four gigantic figures bearing down upon him—the bear with his fangs showing, the Macaw fiercely flapping his wings, the Panda with his fur on end, the Dolphin thrusting out her snout.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers




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