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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.
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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.
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Jennet Conant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Aug. 2020
Those on the brink of death — pale complexion, thready pulse — got red.
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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.
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Jennifer Billock,
Smithsonian,
29 Mar. 2017
His pulse was thready and fast, his belly distended, his bowel ominously silent.
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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.
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Everyone is bulbous, stringy, or malformed.
Adjective
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Your skin has fibrous bands that connect it to the muscle below.
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But the squishies may also contain fibrous tremolite, a material better known as asbestos, in the filling.
Adjective
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Supergirl is, on paper, aiming for something knottier than a typical comic-book adaptation.
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This gives the roots a knotty appearance from which its common name is derived.
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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.
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Nearly 2m Ukrainians have arrived since 2014, pushed by a ropy national economy and a war in the country’s east, and pulled by higher wages in Poland.
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“Thready.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thready. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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