thrust
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In his second year in the majors, he was thrust into the primary role behind the plate for two months because of Will Smith’s lingering neck injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
During flight, the AI-based policy receives information about the robot's position and converts it into real-time commands controlling factors such as thrust force and torques.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
That thrust Beatty into one of the most heated fights of the 80-year-old president’s second term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The rapid development of AI and fears over the risks that the technology poses to humanity have been thrust into the spotlight by a series of warnings from executives and staff at AI firms.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
I thrust my hand out toward the akrafena.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
He has them doing hip thrusts, banded side lunges, goblet curtsy squats and cable kickbacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
It thrusts us midstream into the ageless, ceaseless flow of makers worldwide reckoning with life, earth and being.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Tuason thrusts that sense one step further, framing Evy with plenty of negative space around her.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
If the blockage has not cleared, the NHS says the helper should try abdominal thrusts.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
She stomps her foot and thrusts out her hand for the game controller.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
How quickly the brain and body react after tripping — with your foot automatically thrusting forward, for example, to prevent yourself from face-planting — is what plyometrics trains for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
But we exist in a highly consolidated marketplace where the majority of firms are thrusting AI into their products whether consumers want it or not.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
Fiver was already beyond them and thrusting toward the further entrance tunnel.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing thrust
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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