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The love shown by a community who rallied to search for missing three-year-old Noah Woods was a "thread of positivity" amongst the tragedy, a reverend has said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
But energy is still the thread running through all of it, said Mendez.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026
Family members were added to a text thread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
His thread on X has hundreds of thousands of reposts.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026
The thread looped around its body felt soft to the touch.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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As they craft, artisans chant aloud the design code handwritten on a strip of paper known as talim -- shorthand of ancient symbols for numbers and colours -- knotting the threads string by string.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Reddit has risen in the esteem of many marketers because chatbots turn out to love citing its organic threads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Epner cited other themes, including healthcare in America, as potential narrative threads that could sway a jury in Mangione's favour.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The results introduce a new way to "match the threads" between light and matter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The threads stayed tangled tight inside me all day.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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“We’re bringing all those disparate AI-power moments for the customer into one really elegant single threaded conversational assistant,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The ’90s-era nihilism that threaded so many of Araki’s films has taken a hard slant toward technological despondency.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
Researchers have now shown that specially shaped light can act as a similar type of threaded probe, interacting differently with molecules depending on their handedness.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Though she was barely an inch over five feet tall, her arms were massive with thick, knotted biceps and her forearms were threaded with protruding veins and hard sinew.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Olise's central positioning has also benefited Mbappe, with the Bayern Munich assist king France's most proficient player at threading through balls between defenders.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The results showed that magnetic fields threading through the surrounding gas can help draw protostars closer together.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
Schools are generally steering away from partisan speakers but threading the needle is tough, said Robert Shibley, a lawyer at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
“It’s an exciting job threading the needle multiple times,” said Robert Navarro, project manager at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., which is in charge of the critical third segment of the relay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
The Wood was dark and silent, the moonlight threading its way down between naked branches to shed long dark shadows along the ground.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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Vocabulary lists containing thread
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats
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