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Powell said he was going to “keep his head down” as a governor, and this would thrust him into the spotlight.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026

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

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

She was thrust into the spotlight in 2012 when her debut album, Our Version of Events, spent 10 weeks at number one and broke a chart record set by The Beatles.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

And then, still smiling, he thrust his right hand forward and said, ‘Heil Hitler!’ and the shock of it hit me so hard it felt almost as if he’d punched me with his fist.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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

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

Although they live within their means, Man-su’s termination jettisons the You family from their tax bracket and thrusts its patriarch down a rabbit hole of shame and emasculation.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

Balekin walks two steps and thrusts out his arm.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

"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

That only lasts for one season before the nonprofit shuts down, thrusting both into the big, bad world.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

Bezos is the latest among an older generation of Silicon Valley leaders who are thrusting themselves into the AI race.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

They were peach trees, budded most delicately pink, and willow trees thrusting forth tender green leaves.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck