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  • noun Plural form of thrust.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thrust.

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Examples

  • Featuring a tense storyline filled with plot twists, the title thrusts players into battle like never before.

    MacDailyNews 2008

  • Featuring a tense storyline, filled with plot twists, the title thrusts players into battle like never before.

    MacDailyNews 2008

  • Featuring a tense storyline, filled with plot twists, the title thrusts players into battle like never before.

    MacDailyNews 2008

  • Here's how the game is described: "Featuring a tense storyline, filled with plot twists, the title thrusts players into battle like never before.

    Macsimum News 2008

  • Here's how the game is described: "Featuring a tense storyline, filled with plot twists, the title thrusts players into battle like never before.

    Macsimum News 2008

  • Here's how the game is described: "Featuring a tense storyline, filled with plot twists, the title thrusts players into battle like never before.

    Macsimum News 2008

  • But one of the main thrusts of that piece was that the juries on the Booker panel were in thrall to an outmoded, Modernist notion of what constitutes a 'good novel'.

    MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2) 2009

  • Nietzsche was an experimentalist and anyone who has read him will know that one of the main thrusts of his thought is rejection of absolutes.

    Empiricism and Dogma, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • One of the main plot thrusts is the raising of gholas of several key figures from the time of Dune, and given they age normally to grow to be adults you keep getting small time jumps to deal with this.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • Nothing about Ray's X Factor performance was impressive – his vocals sounded lazy and weak next to the prerecorded singing on the backing track, and as for his dancing … let's just say that the day we choose to watch a foetus doing sexy hip-thrusts is the day we check ourselves into the brain hospital for an operation.

    X Factor Betting Odds: 4Sure Gone, Who’ll Win? 2006

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