thrust
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This thrust him into the limelight, with tabloids snapping photos of him travelling and with his new wife.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The war has thrust Kuwait's Iranian community into an increasingly delicate situation as Iran repeatedly strikes with missiles and drones.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The frequency of the incoming light decreases, reducing the amount of thrust produced by all three components.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
The two women have thrust the topic of maternal mental health into the spotlight—illuminating medical conditions that often get overlooked and undertreated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
She would have to thrust with the spear, using her weight to add force.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The arrangement with Meta thrusts AMD into more direct competition with Broadcom, the world’s biggest designer of the custom chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Really, I think Luhrmann is praying that in a thousand years, some alien civilization will discover this footage and build a whole religion around the thrall Elvis’ hip thrusts had over a crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
Their overlapping limbs, seen from different angles, form a syncopated band of unexpected shapes that thrusts Christ’s much larger, confrontational torso toward us, emphasizing his otherworldliness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
She also vowed to learn how to peform the Heimlich manoeuvre - which involves abdominal thrusts from behind - "in case I ever come across anybody who needs my help".
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
It’s hard to talk when you’re doing as many squat thrusts as you can in four minutes.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
How quickly the brain and body react after tripping — with your foot automatically thrusting forward, for example, to prevent yourself from face-planting — is what plyometrics trains for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
By-elections have a habit of thrusting a constituency into the limelight and for five or six weeks part of Essex has again found itself at the centre of a media storm.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Wawa started selling gas in 1996, charting a course out of the Dark Days for good and thrusting Wawa into its “superstore” era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"The spacecraft is in great shape, and we're on schedule to resume sustained thrusting with the solar-electric propulsion system later this fall."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
He darted up and down, thrusting out his paw as if he held a sword in it, stabbing away at thin air.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing thrust
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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