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• A theme or characteristic found in various stories or situations.

  ‘a common thread through most of the stories is the support from the family’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A lack of accountability to the people is the common thread between them.’
  • ‘The blatant lack of cooperation only complicated the inexperienced Cabinet's ability to devise a common thread of economic policymaking.’
  • ‘We found a focus where we identified common threads.’
  • ‘History is whole - he is unable to excommunicate himself from the common thread.’
  • ‘I don't find any scriptural authority for finding common thread.’
  • ‘Stories from all kinds of different cultures have common threads running through them.’
  • ‘Families are working with investigators to find any common threads in the women's lives.’
  • ‘Civil rights groups are still searching for a common thread to unite progressives in a struggle for racial justice.’
  • ‘A common thread across all 3 cities was disproportionate praise.’
  • ‘The common thread in most of the cases: bioscience gone evil.’