the thing
Example Sentences
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"I don't want my dating to be the thing to hurt Blackpink's popularity," she says in the film.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
"The difference here is, the thing absorbing matter is not a tiny black hole but a star, which is relatively big in size," Burdge explains.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
For the U.S. frontier labs, spending billions to be six months ahead of rivals, the thing to worry about is whether their spending will pay off—and whether government will let it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“HOPE is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all,” John Owen Lowe shared in an Instagram Stories post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
That flicker of fear, the thing that he had tried so hard to hide.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
