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So looking ahead to the 74th Primetime Emmys in September, what shows have threaded the needle of art and accessibility?

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2022

The Tottenham striker's passing was so precise he could have threaded any one of them through the eye of a needle and it would have still found one of his team-mates.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2022

Workers have threaded the chains that will cut through the ship into place and welded massive lugs to the vessel’s hull that will attach to the crane for lifting each big section.

From Washington Times • Jul. 9, 2020

The Discovery writers have threaded many hints and fostered quite a bit of speculation on what Control might be — or specifically what it might become.

From The Verge • May 1, 2019

I have climbed mountains; I have threaded rivers; I have sailed seas; but nowhere have I seen the home for which my heart aches.

From Prue and I by Curtis, George William