thread
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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
"We are holding on by a small thread but we are still holding on," West Ham captain Jarrod Bowen told BBC Sport.
From BBC • May 17, 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
Xi is trying to thread several needles at once.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
On his snowy nightshirt was a small crest, worked in gold thread.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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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