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thread

[thred] / θrɛd /




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Everything connects, but he is always the common thread.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

But it’s a tricky privacy needle to thread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Bellingham produced a lovely pass to thread Kane through for the first goal, scored England's second and assisted Saka for England's fourth.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

In the same thread, though, came the rebuttal: there were good ghost kitchens.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Every thread I pluck at seems to unravel something else.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

And the third follows a gay writer-scholar who comes into a mysterious inheritance that leads back to the film’s earlier threads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The hoofed Highlanders have been embraced as an unofficial mascot on campus, with Reddit threads dedicated to donkey spotting and burro plushies for sale in the campus store.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Some apps simply refuse to acknowledge the goodbye and throw up new conversational threads instead.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

They followed those threads to Facebook groups and Telegram channels.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

“He had some of the finest threads you’ll find in the swampland. I can give you suits worth more than that root.”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Mr. Eastham is best known as an art critic, and “The Floating World” is threaded with dazzling disquisitions on individual works and concepts, the enduring relationship between art and money, the timelessness of human creation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The first was a low-velocity ground ball threaded up the middle to drive in a run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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

Then she and James threaded them onto supple branches.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

These outflows are consistent with winds generated by magnetic fields threading through the disk.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 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

Fury upped the tempo in the latter rounds, varying his attack and threading in several uppercuts, but Makhmudov absorbed them without ever really being shaken.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 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

Fernanda was present several times and did not see her, in spite of the fact that she was so real, so human, and on one occasion asked of Amaranta the favor of threading a needle.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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