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thrust

[thruhst] / θrʌst /




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It bothered Lacy, a serious artist who wrote with Kendrick Lamar and earned a Grammy nomination as a teenager in the R&B collective The Internet, suddenly thrust into living meme territory with “Bad Habit.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Rodri confronted Molina, but it was the Argentina player who thrust forward in an aggressive manner.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

The sale marks the end of a turbulent chapter for the estate, which was thrust into the spotlight in March 2024 when Homeland Security agents raided the property as part of their investigation into Combs.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

As an ordinary man thrust into a world of monsters and maniacs, Neill is inherently playing with ideas about art and celebrity that reflect his own career.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

He crossed to the centaur, shivering in the rain, thrust them into his hands, and half ran back, beyond the chain’s reach.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

It’s why Carson Zone is at the gym every Monday and Friday, grunting into weighted hip thrusts and pushing through heavy staggered lunges.

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

But this is made complex by his vast cast of characters whose minds he often thrusts in and out of — sometimes even between individual sentences or paragraphs.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2026

Tuason thrusts that sense one step further, framing Evy with plenty of negative space around her.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2026

The arrangement with Meta thrusts AMD into more direct competition with Broadcom, the world’s biggest designer of the custom chips.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2026

She thrusts the post-balloon's tails into my hands.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

"The spacecraft is in great shape, and we're on schedule to resume sustained thrusting with the solar-electric propulsion system later this fall."

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

That milestone was also recently hit by Samsung Electronics and US chipmaker Micron -- with AI thrusting the three memory chip firms into a previously exclusive club of around a dozen companies, nearly all American.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Then in March this year, a YouTuber who goes by the name Reckless Ben got involved - thrusting this local drama into the spotlight.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

As amiable as the movie is from the jump, it wastes no time thrusting viewers into a world in complete peril, refusing to sugarcoat the modern realities of a once-robust industry.

From Salon May 1, 2026

“Here,” she said, thrusting the clipboard into Lexie’s hands.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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