thrust
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The spectacles have also thrust airlines, their employees and customers into uncomfortable—and potentially dangerous—confrontations in airports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
When the football did eventually begin, Infantino's relationship with Trump was thrust into the spotlight when the US President asked Fifa to overturn Folarin Balogun's one-match suspension.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
She thrust a piece of paper under my nose, and I glanced down to see a detailed map of the campus.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
It’s why Carson Zone is at the gym every Monday and Friday, grunting into weighted hip thrusts and pushing through heavy staggered lunges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 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
Straightaway, “Nouvelle Vague” thrusts you into a razor-smart club and demands you keep up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
New Zealand were troubled by South Africa's ultra-physical approach in the first half of their quarter-final, with the Springboks making metres with 15-player driving mauls and forward thrusts around the fringes.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
He allowed my brother to gain an advantage, then reversed their positions by parrying his thrusts.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
But we exist in a highly consolidated marketplace where the majority of firms are thrusting AI into their products whether consumers want it or not.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
Kathy had already leaned so heavily on Yuko and Ahmaad, she couldn’t imagine permanently thrusting her entire family onto them.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
Vocabulary lists containing thrust
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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