thread
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"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
On Nextdoor, residents sparred in a thread about the Delphs’ trees.
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 forces a chuckle and picks at a stray thread on her shirt.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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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