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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
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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
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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
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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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Vocabulary lists containing thread
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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