thread
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Her wonders of needle and thread, pliers and glue, 3-D printing and biotechnology are born in an Amsterdam studio, something between a cutting-edge lab and a medieval guild.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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
His thread on X has hundreds of thousands of reposts.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026
He handed me a spool of thread and a needle.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
They followed those threads to Facebook groups and Telegram channels.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Initially declared a success with "no visible alteration" to the 70-metre-long tapestry following its arrival, France last week said two broken threads were spotted during a full condition check.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 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
Burned buyers have swarmed Reddit threads and Facebook groups to vent and seek advice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The two cranes were intertwined in the clouds, silvery blues and grays, and Ma had added a large circle of gold and yellow threads above them.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The first was a low-velocity ground ball threaded up the middle to drive in a run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The ’90s-era nihilism that threaded so many of Araki’s films has taken a hard slant toward technological despondency.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 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
Mr. Flux screamed, but his scream was threaded with laughter.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Far from simply pressing a button, film projectionists must actively guide a screening, threading and splicing reels and closely monitoring for mechanical issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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
In the current crisis, “he is really threading this needle,” Phelps said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
He tied one end of the rope to the boat, threading it through a gap between some boards near the top.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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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