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thread

[thred] / θrɛd /




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“Worst Ever” is Blumhouse’s first TV franchise, in which horror continues to be a common thread, said Palek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

But it’s a tricky privacy needle to thread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

And there was a case for Boavista, title winners in 2001 but whose existence now hangs by a thread.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

In the same thread, though, came the rebuttal: there were good ghost kitchens.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

As he yanked on it the thread pulled up a tassel, which topped a funny little red hat.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

The two threads come together as Macaria, who has run out of magic tears, makes a final, fatal bargain with the Señora in order to save the baby and secure Pina’s future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Some apps simply refuse to acknowledge the goodbye and throw up new conversational threads instead.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

For Weber and Finger, the chance to tie the disparate threads they discuss on “Who? Weekly” was a major incentive to work on their book.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

That ability to hold seemingly opposing ideas at once became one of the most compelling threads running through the festival.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

But he must have been able to see sound threads coming from them anyway.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

He threaded passes into minuscule gaps in Ohio State’s zone defense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

So, on Sept. 25, 1974, Jobe took a tendon from John’s right arm, threaded it through holes he had drilled in John’s left elbow and hoped it all would work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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

Mr. Flux screamed, but his scream was threaded with laughter.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Planets and stars generate their own fields, but gaps in our understanding emerge when we attempt to explain the much larger scale magnetic fields threading galaxies and clusters, and possibly even cosmic voids.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

I’m like, “Jesus, Jack. You’re really threading that needle.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 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

She watched the cars crawling up Chicken Street, threading through the horde of hawkers and pedestrians, honking at children and donkeys who wouldn’t move.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini


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