thrust
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One, Caroline Aguirre, filed a police report alleging Gonzales-Torres thrust a finger into her face at a meeting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Wangaratta has been thrust into an unwelcome spotlight this week.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Learning how nightjars generate thrust during the upstroke could help engineers develop more effective ways to move through the air.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
The first ones with enough thrust to catch the new Gerans won’t be available until December.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
As if he’d been thrust into a scene in the bottom of this swirling shadow.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
During a typical session, he does supersets of barbell hip thrusts, planks and walking lunges with 30-pound dumbbells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
This breakup thrusts her into a public battle for her emotional security, and that would be the case regardless of whether she made it public.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026
It thrusts us midstream into the ageless, ceaseless flow of makers worldwide reckoning with life, earth and being.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Tuason thrusts that sense one step further, framing Evy with plenty of negative space around her.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
“Because this is not in the right place. See the fabric—it’s different,” and she thrusts the errant item up toward my chest.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Ms. Paulus’s staging, set in period, wisely avoids thrusting the play ham-handedly into a contemporary context.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
"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
That milestone was also recently hit by Samsung Electronics and US chipmaker Micron -- with AI thrusting the three memory chip firms into a previously exclusive club of around a dozen companies, nearly all American.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
“To August and Marlena,” I say, thrusting my glass upward.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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