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Recent Examples of thready
Simard’s transformative contribution to arboreal science has been to explain the function of mycorrhizal networks—a webbing of thready fungi, reticulated through and expanding beyond tree roots, fastening trees to one another in the soil.
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Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
Similar to Sporothrix, Coccidioides has two forms, starting with a thready, fragile one that exists in soil and breaks apart when soil is disturbed.
—Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
Many patients, despite a thready pulse and low blood pressure, did not appear to be in clinical shock.
—Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
Those on the brink of death — pale complexion, thready pulse — got red.
—Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 4 Oct. 2017
Mushrooms grow from a thready substance called mycelia that sits just underground, spreading across a region to encourage growth of the fungi fruit.
—Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
His pulse was thready and fast, his belly distended, his bowel ominously silent.
—Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2011
Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
Similar to Sporothrix, Coccidioides has two forms, starting with a thready, fragile one that exists in soil and breaks apart when soil is disturbed.
—Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
Many patients, despite a thready pulse and low blood pressure, did not appear to be in clinical shock.
—Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
Those on the brink of death — pale complexion, thready pulse — got red.
—Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 4 Oct. 2017
Mushrooms grow from a thready substance called mycelia that sits just underground, spreading across a region to encourage growth of the fungi fruit.
—Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
His pulse was thready and fast, his belly distended, his bowel ominously silent.
—Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thready
Adjective
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Among them is, naturally, the stringy bikini look, and Kylie Jenner appears more than happy to kick off the season while soaking in every second of her dreamy Kylie Cosmetics trip.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
4 June 2026
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Everyone is bulbous, stringy, or malformed.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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But the squishies may also contain fibrous tremolite, a material better known as asbestos, in the filling.—
Parents,
Parents,
6 June 2026
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One ecological version of that idea holds that grass once helped wild canids clear intestinal worms—the fibrous strands wrap around the worms and carry them out in the droppings.—
Niranjana Rajalakshmi,
Popular Science,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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Her divorce from Brad Pitt was a notoriously knotty one, and it was settled in late 2024 following eight years of legal wrangling.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
11 June 2026
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Any genuinely global event will have its friction points—and having three countries host 48 others, rather than one country host 32, was always going to make things knottier.—
Chris Jones,
The Atlantic,
7 June 2026
Adjective
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Closing out the first decade of sound film, Son of Frankenstein has far more ropey dialogue than entrancing atmosphere or a memorable arc for the Monster.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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With a rocker’s bleached-out shag, ropy arms vined with tattoos and jangly silver bracelets, and skintight jeans slashed by rips and rivets, Mr. Webb was a proudly resolute bearer of the punk-glam torch, even as the decades moved inexorably along.—
Penelope Green,
New York Times,
16 Apr. 2020
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“Thready.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thready. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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