I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stuff/thrust sth in your pocket (= put it there quickly and carelessly )
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He took off his cap and stuffed it in his pocket.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
aside
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The agonized hand-wringing about internationalism and the finer points of world politics were thrust aside .
deep
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Timman advanced, creating problems for Speelman with a pawn thrust deep into his opponent's position, splitting Black's forces.
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I continue along the dark pavement with my hands thrust deep inside my pockets.
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Johnny was standing with his back to the window, his hands thrust deep into his pockets.
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She watched dazedly as he paced in front of the cottage, hands thrust deep into the pockets of his jeans.
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They thrust deep into Republican territory.
forward
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Somehow her fingers had automatically closed over the bag he had thrust forward .
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The rear foot is used because it has the forward thrust of the body behind it.
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Her talons are thrust forward ready to grab the food.
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My head had been thrust forward and eyes half closed.
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Ewan's former opponent, freed for a second, thrust forward with his spear.
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As the match entered its final stages Civil Service thrust forward again using the long ball into the circle.
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Still, though, the expression is unyielding, the chin thrusting forward in defiance.
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She wound a lime chiffon scarf of Madeleine's around her head, and practised pouting with one hip thrust forward .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the cut and thrust of sth
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Away from the cut and thrust of soccer management, Bates knew how to keep second wife Pam in her place.
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It has all the cut and thrust of an ideological conflict.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Thrusting the gun back into its holster, the man grinned at the body lying on the floor.
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Clark thrust a paper sack across the counter and demanded money.
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He thrust some money into my hand and told me to drive him to the airport.
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He thrust the knife deep into the animal's chest.
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He nervously thrust his hands into his pockets.
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She thrust the bag into my hands. "Hide it,'' she hissed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A sharp sad pain, almost pleasurable, thrust into me.
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An alligator head in profile juts up at the top, its darting red tongue thrusting out sideways.
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Four fingers were thrust , gripping, through a gap between the planks of the door.
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His bowler hat is pushed way back on his head; his hands are thrust into his jacket.
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She thrust the customary tip towards the croupier with a slip of paper wrapped around a plaque.
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She smiled for Riven though, and that smile was like a sword blade thrust in his chest.
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The attacker now completes the turn and thrusts his right leg out towards his opponent.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity.
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A central thrust of management will be to create excitement about the future of the company and about belonging to the company.
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The central thrust of their criticism is that modern science is somehow incomplete.
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My apologies for that, but the central thrust of the article stands.
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It is important that we accept that the central thrust of the measure is about the offshore industry.
general
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There is room for argument about precise figures, none about the general thrust of Sir Hector's briefing.
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But its general thrust is clear.
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The general thrust of policy guidelines seems to be to encourage a greater contribution from the voluntary sector.
main
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The main thrust of the operation has not been internalised or understood.
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This is currently the main thrust of new thinking about Bach.
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Their main thrust is against motor vehicles.
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The move away from project loans and towards structural adjustment loans in the 1980s does not diminish the main thrust of this argument.
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The main thrust of Mr. Lester's submissions for the defendants has never previously been considered in the context of libel.
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A series of attacks were launched in March, with the main thrust into the Manipur plain.
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Yet union activists will read into the same policy review an endorsement of the main thrust of Conservative legislation.
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This has as its main thrust the idea that regulation itself is subject to economic laws.
major
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Moreover, the back limbs of such folds may become detached along major thrust faults to produce nappes.
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To the extent that the plan reflected any kind of programmatic coherence, its major thrust was toward housing rehabilitation.
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The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions.
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There is no doubt that Wounded Knee is a major Communist thrust ....
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A major late north-north-west thrust episode has been identified, possibly associated with movements on the Boundary Slide in adjacent areas.
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However, the most satisfactory response could only mean a major thrust coordinated at national level.
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The improvement of our management of information should be the major thrust of our information services strategy for the next five years.
whole
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His whole thrust is to produce an easily understood bedrock upon which the specific nuances of particular organizations can be built.
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The whole thrust of organized labor is to.. well, not socialism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It is difficult to argue with the thrust of Davidson's analysis of the situation.
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The new jet engines that will deliver more thrust at top speeds.
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The overall thrust of her argument was that women are still oppressed in all areas of life.
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With a thrust of its fins, the shark moved through the water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Archibol was shoved backward from the thrust of her bosom.
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But with the thrust coming from the back the body is nose-heavy and liable to dive downwards.
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In the meantime there was no great political thrust for change, and in any case public expenditure restraints were tight.
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Overall less thrust is produced in this situation as well.
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The main thrust of Prism's work is a belief that creative work can foster equality, joy and empowerment.
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These thrusts are an expression of compressive forces, which shorten the crust.
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We have seen the mechanistic thrust of literacy discourse in the past five years.