thread
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"I was not able to read small letters, I was not able to thread in a needle... now I can, to do all those things," she said.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
The story in that is that there’s constant change, constant evolution, and to find the thread throughout is kind of the meaning of life.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
In Greek mythology The Fates are three women who control the thread of human life, deciding how long a person lives.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
In a long thread posted on X Friday, designed to replicate the ten-point commodity bulletins he published at Goldman, Currie welcomed investors to “the most asymmetric trade in modern financial history.”
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
He held up a single spool of thread.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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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"Modern Automotive Technology," Vocabulary from Section 1
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