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“That is an almost impossible needle to thread and explains our market perform rating.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
High thread density refers to the ability to run massive amounts of independent tasks at the same time on a single chip.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
They “can thread the movie and push start, but if there are any mechanical issues, they can’t fix it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Underneath it all runs the Diego Maradona-Messi thread.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
One of the rocket ships was starting to come undone where the name J. Pierce was stitched in blue thread.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
The results introduce a new way to "match the threads" between light and matter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
On Facebook and Reddit combined, there are dozens of groups and threads dedicated to Photoshop requests.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
“Being able to nail the food, and nail the story, those are two very difficult threads to weave,” Garner says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
They select complementary textual threads from vast data warehouses and weave them together to create tapestries of prose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The look of it reminded Ella of a jewelry box she'd spotted on Gran's dresser with writhing filigree, twisted threads of gold on its lid.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
But threaded through the movie is another story, well-suited to the director’s dry and self-effacing sense of humor, of Hollywood producers interested in remaking “Sherman’s March” as a fiction feature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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
Salonen’s own music, much of it new to L.A., was threaded throughout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Ella sat at Abina's desk while the braid-hands got to work transforming Abina's hair into pretty cornrows threaded with beads.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
The results showed that magnetic fields threading through the surrounding gas can help draw protostars closer together.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
Schools are generally steering away from partisan speakers but threading the needle is tough, said Robert Shibley, a lawyer at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 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
Poehler is uniquely skilled at threading the needle.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2026
He has a cobweb threading his dark hair.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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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