thrust
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That thrust Beatty into one of the most heated fights of the 80-year-old president’s second term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The situation thrust the team at NBC4 into a journalist’s nightmare — a tragedy where reporters become part of the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
"The script was funny. I mean, not only funny... it was as if he had a kind of defiance about the condition thrust upon him, and that was very striking," Madden said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
The initial executive order was followed by two others with the same thrust.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
I carried it down and didn’t even wait for Auntie Matchmaker to stop speaking to Ma before I thrust it at her.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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
The ruling thrusts the global trade economy into new and unfamiliar terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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
Although they live within their means, Man-su’s termination jettisons the You family from their tax bracket and thrusts its patriarch down a rabbit hole of shame and emasculation.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
Marlena thrusts her suitcase at me without stopping.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Bruxism is an umbrella term which groups together four different jaw movements - clenching, grinding, bracing and thrusting.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
It was Jasper, thrusting his cold damp nose in my hands.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Vocabulary lists containing thrust
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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