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[thred] / θrɛd /




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Why write an entire article when I can dash off a quick thread and gain hundreds of likes?

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

Instead of matching the thread colour to the garment, they make the mend highly decorative using geometric patterns in large white stitching.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Yet rather than being maudlin or depressing, the opera’s central thread is about taking responsibility, and the determined ghosts use their power to enter Lincoln, hear his thoughts, and push him—and Willie—forward into resolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Breaking through Holmes’ tight circle of dubious companions, Fielder pulls at every thread he can, attempting to unravel a greater truth from life’s gnarled yarn.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Theseus found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a thread behind him; to Penelope this seemed a waste of good embroidery floss.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

The spiral's shape determines how it responds to this flow, similar to the difference between screws with right- or left-handed threads.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

Chatbots also "put the wrong words in the mouths of candidates, officials, and observers hundreds of times" and frequently cited "poor quality" sources, such as Reddit threads, Forum AI said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 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

It also threads throughout a few clever nods to Bob Dylan, though how that element fits into the whole I’ve yet to fully figure out—just the kind of lingering headscratcher this festival excels at.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

I can take threads from someone, but they can pick them up again.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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 ’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

Mr. Flux screamed, but his scream was threaded with laughter.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

I’m like, “Jesus, Jack. You’re really threading that needle.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

By threading Celan’s poems through the lived record, Ms. Arno restores a proud, wounded, flirtatious, multilingual man often romanticized by reverence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

“Yes, sir,” said the driver, threading his way in and out the traffic of Broadway, which greatly interested both the children and the penguins.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater


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