thread
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"Caring has really been a thread through my life from very, very young," she says.
From BBC • May 24, 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
These were the first 10 posts, and there was nothing here that was particularly obscure, nor was there any kind of thread of continuity that seemed obvious.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
She shifted her attention to my hands, where I was yanking the thread with such tension that the fabric was puckering.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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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