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[thred] / θrɛd /




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As I moved from darkened room to darkened room, ridiculed in one, flirted with in another, a thread of finding one’s own personal paradise in a hellscape began to emerge.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

A constant thread through each episode is the noise, the pace of activity and the constant demands on the staff who never seem to get a break.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

But energy is still the thread running through all of it, said Mendez.

From MarketWatch Sep. 13, 2026

“I don’t think anybody expected the thread to go as viral as it did, and a response like this is not the sort of thing anyone can manufacture,” Coxon said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Tying my apron about me, I rummaged for a needle and thread while Louise and Beatrice stood by, speechless.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

It was just too much of a nightmare to leave something half done, when I knew how hard it would be to pick up the threads in another week or month.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Twenty-four minutes later, the tops were craggy, the centers soft and brownie-like, and just enough little green threads remained visible to remind you what season it was.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

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

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

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

In the middle of the room was a big loom, strung with varying shades of threads.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

That time, he beat his defender down the left flank and threaded a pass to Balogun right in front of the net for a tap-in.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

Ivy threaded her fingers together, twisting her hands nervously back and forth.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 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

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

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 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 not even about Hudson, really,” he says, threading our fingers.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera




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