thread
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References to past selves and ghosts are a thread in many of her novels.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
In a long thread posted on X Friday, designed to replicate the ten-point commodity bulletins he published at Goldman, Currie welcomed investors to “the most asymmetric trade in modern financial history.”
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
Xi is trying to thread several needles at once.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
But her mother’s affirmation remains the thread connecting both works.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
The next night he sneaked into Old Emma’s shed, and he got into her bobbins of thread; they were big rolls of thread in all different colors.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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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"Modern Automotive Technology," Vocabulary from Section 1
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