threads
Example Sentences
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For all its length, the film leaves some threads only partly explored.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Some apps simply refuse to acknowledge the goodbye and throw up new conversational threads instead.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
They followed those threads to Facebook groups and Telegram channels.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
It was just too much of a nightmare to leave something half done, when I knew how hard it would be to pick up the threads in another week or month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Ida went and sat behind the loom, moving her hands across the strings, weaving her threads in and out and around each other.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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