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thread

[thred] / θrɛd /




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The common historical thread is that some amazing new technology attracts lots of capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

"That's maybe a common thread of these films, is that they're not just holding wealth for themselves, but also their products don't seem to be very good for society," Tyree said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Breaking through Holmes’ tight circle of dubious companions, Fielder pulls at every thread he can, attempting to unravel a greater truth from life’s gnarled yarn.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

He said the crumbling boardwalk is a historic thread in the city’s fabric.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

My eyes snap up from the loose thread I’m fiddling with to meet hers.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

From online influencers to Reddit threads and group chats, it’s not the first time discussions have sparked around whose responsibility it is to teach young boys about consent, boundaries and rape culture.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

But they privately acknowledge the idea of tying all those loose threads together in one big conspiracy case in South Florida, as they had initially attempted, isn’t a practical approach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

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

Balthilda was knitting what looked like a shawl, creating a fluid and intricate pattern with Hadel’s rich threads.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Salonen’s own music, much of it new to L.A., was threaded throughout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

We stood near the side table, which was loaded with mountains of food, from a whole roast hart with ivy threaded through its antlers to butter cookies as small and lacy as snowflakes.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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

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

In the current crisis, “he is really threading this needle,” Phelps said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

But the threading had been hard for her because she had no sense of what the buildings were.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry


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