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Aaron Peskin, who at the time served on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, said that while there are a variety of factors contributing to the vacancy issue, impractical property owners were the most common thread.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
In Greek mythology The Fates are three women who control the thread of human life, deciding how long a person lives.
From BBC • May 16, 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
On Nextdoor, residents sparred in a thread about the Delphs’ trees.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
I broke the thread off quickly and jumped away from the wheel, like somehow I had infected it with my curse.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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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