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thread

[thred] / θrɛd /




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The ad featured popular Bollywood actor Kriti Sanon celebrating the Hindu festival in which sisters tie a thread called Rakhi over their brothers' wrists.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

When you’re looking at a thread of social media bots sharing the same five replies to AI-generated slapfights between anthropomorphic fruits, it can be hard to remember the internet used to be a lively place.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

"The harvest is hanging by a thread," he told AFP from his vineyard in the village of Spay, looking out over the Rhine and hills scorched a deep brown by the heat.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

In one in January, Tired_Thumb weighed in on a thread about a local news article that identified Ross as the agent who had killed Good two days before.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

She grinned and began to replait her hair, working the long gold thread through it.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

Elsewhere, hopeful buyers in Reddit and Facebook threads are directed to online marketplaces, including for more expensive bulk purchases.

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

“I tried to use some earth magic, and all I did was throw dirt in a zmeyok’s face. I can’t even see threads most of the time.”

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

So, on Sept. 25, 1974, Jobe took a tendon from John’s right arm, threaded it through holes he had drilled in John’s left elbow and hoped it all would work.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 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

The vehicle was a phrase Beijing threaded through its accounts of the meeting: a “constructive strategic partnership.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Once I finally got the needle threaded, I was ready to start hemming again.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

But it isn’t clear whether threading that needle is possible if Siri AI is a runaway hit.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

The results showed that magnetic fields threading through the surrounding gas can help draw protostars closer together.

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 2026

Poehler is uniquely skilled at threading the needle.

From Salon Jan. 16, 2026

Calvin turned on East Las Flores Drive, threading under the canopy of crape myrtles, pines and deodar cedars, and pulled up to his Midcentury ranch home and ran next door to check on his mom.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

An impatient man on a Harley trying to work his way between traffic, like threading a needle.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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