thread
Example Sentences
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The absence of those elements here makes “Hamnet” simply derivative; a loose thread, grabbed swiftly and pulled hard in the hopes that the audience will be undone.
From Salon
Elsewhere, glass in the shape of biological masses is covered in delicate wire and thread, looking like the oversize results from lumpectomies.
DOGE’s work triggered at least 20 significant court cases that are trying to thread the needles of authority.
This is the moment where so many Thanksgiving tables lose the thread.
From Salon
It was just that their lives had kind of crossed over a line into the margins, just by a thread.
From Los Angeles Times
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