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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
Now a study published in Cell shows a complete, three-dimensional map of every single nerve fiber threading through a mouse.
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Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2025
The wild west of Ireland reveals sea cliffs like Slieve League, hushed peat bogs, and winding roads threading through Connemara’s granite hills and glassy lakes.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Fishnet tights slipped in between hem and boot, underscoring the gothic register that Ortega and stylist Enrique Melendez have been threading through each stop of the tour.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2025
The wild west of Ireland reveals sea cliffs like Slieve League, hushed peat bogs, and winding roads threading through Connemara’s granite hills and glassy lakes.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Fishnet tights slipped in between hem and boot, underscoring the gothic register that Ortega and stylist Enrique Melendez have been threading through each stop of the tour.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for threading
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The story unfolds in Agra during the 1990s, weaving together romantic elements with comedic beats and supernatural scares.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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Naming the bags is my way of weaving culture directly into design.—
Ugonnaora Owoh,
Essence,
4 Sep. 2025
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Mackesy’s son Coulter, who plays for the Premier Lacrosse League’s Boston Cannons, has a lacrosse stringing business.—
Jason Clinkscales,
Sportico.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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In addition, players will receive free racquet stringing of up to five racquets per round.—
Adam Zagoria,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Liposuction entails surgically inserting a probe that vacuums out not only body fat, but also fat storage cells.—
Bryant Stamford,
The Courier-Journal,
29 Aug. 2025
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In several separate interviews, students and professors described stepping between Kohberger and others – intercepting him in hallways and inserting themselves in conversations for others’ security.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
19 Aug. 2025
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The project is being positioned as a theatrical horror experience mixing scares with romance, built around the real-life historical event.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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Well, there are many, many mixing desk tapes which would, in the Seventies, have been done to cassette.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Threading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threading. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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