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It bothered Lacy, a serious artist who wrote with Kendrick Lamar and earned a Grammy nomination as a teenager in the R&B collective The Internet, suddenly thrust into living meme territory with “Bad Habit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The sale marks the end of a turbulent chapter for the estate, which was thrust into the spotlight in March 2024 when Homeland Security agents raided the property as part of their investigation into Combs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
As an ordinary man thrust into a world of monsters and maniacs, Neill is inherently playing with ideas about art and celebrity that reflect his own career.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
They added that Widdecombe loved the "cut and thrust of political debate" and despite leaving Parliament 16 years ago, was "still actively campaigning for Reform UK".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
He gathered up the animal in one hairy arm and thrust the other before him to ward Nhamo off.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
He has them doing hip thrusts, banded side lunges, goblet curtsy squats and cable kickbacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
But this is made complex by his vast cast of characters whose minds he often thrusts in and out of — sometimes even between individual sentences or paragraphs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
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
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
He stands, thrusts his black felt hat onto his head.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
As amiable as the movie is from the jump, it wastes no time thrusting viewers into a world in complete peril, refusing to sugarcoat the modern realities of a once-robust industry.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
Such hunting was an extremely risky business: The pelvic wound suggests that the hunter may have been directly beneath his prey, thrusting upward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
But it’s also thrusting a decades-old accounting debate back into the spotlight.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 21, 2026
Dozens of islanders waited behind barriers to welcome Prince William, with one woman thrusting her baby grandson Joaquim Monteiro into his arms.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
Gebu stalked past Ranofer with nothing more than a glare, and Pai followed, thrusting the scroll at Ranofer as he went by.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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