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The researchers gently stimulated the animals' vellus-like hairs using a small loop of thread to produce mechanical itch.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Parallel to Byrd’s stirring public advocacy is a crucial personal thread: her nurturing of Shelly, whose progressing dementia requires regular supervision.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Embroidered in wool thread, the tapestry tells its story in words and images, but its origins have remained shrouded in some mystery and much speculation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

It is one of the greatest yet least visible feats of international cooperation—and a surprisingly thin thread on which much of the global economy depends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

I can thread a needle while you’re looking for the eye.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

It’s time to merge the disparate threads into a single comprehensive story—one that people won’t forget.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Four distinct lessons stand out as threads that run throughout the essays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

So yeah, the title I think encapsulates how we’re trying to explore these different genres and all the different narrative threads in the show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Early dabbawalas transported lunchboxes on bicycles and marked them with coloured threads so they could be sorted and returned accurately.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

I brushed my fingers over the threads, smooth and warm.

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

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

The vehicle was a phrase Beijing threaded through its accounts of the meeting: a “constructive strategic partnership.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Whatever the risks of his speechifying, you had to admire — here in our age of political infotainment — the natural finesse with which Springsteen threaded his prepared rhetoric into Tuesday’s set.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Then, after Ross Barkley equalised, Fernandes threaded a pass through the Villa defence for Matheus Cunha who slotted home to give United a lead they would not lose.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026

Rowan threaded his fingers more tightly through Star's soft, damp coat.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

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

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

Mr. Mulla begins by efficiently threading out a highly complicated history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

He is a sarcastic jokester who expresses love for his teammates by threading passes to them through pinhole-sized gaps in the defense and then trash talking them right soon after.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

Redemption hovered on the outskirts of the picture they made, uncertainty threading through his body.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi