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as in weaving
to scatter or set here and there among other things
this history book threads excerpts from the diaries of pioneer women into its account of the settlement of the West
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as in stringing
to put together into a series by means of or as if by means of a thread
the reporter threaded his newspaper articles about the basketball team into a book that was essentially a chronicle of their championship season
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Recent Examples of threading
And for nearly 200 years, the Navier-Stokes equations have served as an unimpeachable theory of how fluids in the real world behave — from ocean currents threading their way between the continents to air wrapping around an aircraft’s wings.
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Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
Mister Terrific emerges as one of Superman’s smartest anchors, threading intellect through a story preoccupied with power, trust, and what the world expects its heroes to be.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 30 Dec. 2025
Martin Odegaard’s availability has been patchy, but summer signing Eberechi Eze has eased the creative load with a similar profile of finding pockets and threading final balls.
—Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2025
The two riders went ballistic, threading gnarly chutes and throwing creative tricks off of Kirkwood’s iconic Y-spine.
—Outside, 18 Dec. 2025
Vance is now tasked with the job of threading the needle; forcefully supporting and defending the administration's policies in the media while not antagonizing swing voters away from the GOP column in three years.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
While the stories don’t entirely reflect the same plight, some scholars contend that the fabled story of Hamlet does carry the same emotional tenor of parental grief and guilt threading the two experiences together.
—Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
Quiet Revolution Ahead Agentic AI is already here, threading itself through the operational fabric of business and daily life.
—Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2025
For Ojito, writing about the Valbanera and threading family stories into her novel was a profound experience.
—Raul A. Reyes, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2025
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The debate over lasting solutions reveals the complexity of how criminal organizations have grown so powerful, weaving themselves into nearly every layer of Brazilian society over time.—
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What results is a familiar historical drama, weaving together many various characters in the buildup to the climactic courtroom showdown.—
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Volunteers started stringing lights in late September.—
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The first step in making the documentary was digitizing all of the personal footage and stringing it out before even interviewing the family.—
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But even those who use TA say there’s something odd about inserting English letters in a sentence of Chinese characters.—
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The Justice Department argued that the judge had overstepped his authority by inserting himself into questions of foreign policy.—
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At the sound level, our engineer is a guy who makes all the greatest dance music in the Latin world right now [Josh Gudwin is the records’ mixing engineer and Dale Becker mastering engineer].—
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Naumes uses a similar approach, mixing fresh lemon juice with water.—
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“Threading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threading. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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