thrust
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Whoever wins city hall will be thrust onto a global stage, as Los Angeles prepares to host the 2028 Summer Olympics.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
The publicity surrounding “American Gothic” thrust the artist into the center of what Ms. Corn calls a regionalist-modernist culture war, with Wood and Pablo Picasso emblematic of the respective camps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Wangaratta has been thrust into an unwelcome spotlight this week.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The sleek white sports car drove upside down, thrust itself into the air and performed a flip over a lineup of other Tesla vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
I thrust my hand out toward the akrafena.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
This is the brilliant way writer-director Jesse Eisenberg thrusts us into his third — and best — feature, “The Debut,” screening at this year’s New York Film Festival and premiering in theaters December 11.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
Balekin walks two steps and thrusts out his arm.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
The reports of the alleged affair and images published by Daily Mail began circulating in late November 2022, thrusting the journalists and their loved ones into a media frenzy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Ms. Paulus’s staging, set in period, wisely avoids thrusting the play ham-handedly into a contemporary context.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
By-elections have a habit of thrusting a constituency into the limelight and for five or six weeks part of Essex has again found itself at the centre of a media storm.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
"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
Gebu moved closer, thrusting his face into the boy’s.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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