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The phrase "a common thread running through" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a recurring theme or idea that connects different elements or topics.
Example: "In her analysis of the novels, she identified a common thread running through the characters' struggles for identity."
Alternatives: "a recurring theme throughout" or "a unifying element in".
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Is there a common thread running through the pieces in the exhibition?
And yes, there is a common thread running through all of this.
That combination of forthrightness and tribal loyalty is a common thread running through Powell's biography.
A common thread running through stories of the unenrolled is cost.
Is there a common thread running through Liar's Poker, The Blind Side, Moneyball, and now Boomerang?
AT first glance it's hard to find a common thread running through Valentino's spring capsule collection, Timestrings.
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A common thread runs through many recent corporate setbacks and scandals.
In astronaut circles, the return to Earth aboard the Soyuz capsule is described in a hundred ways, but a common thread runs through them.
If a common thread runs through Belcher's work, it's a belief that technology and engineering can help address societal problems.
The president denies any wrongdoing, but a common thread runs through these events.Mexico only became a democracy in 2000, when seven decades of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the political machine that raised Mr Peña, were ended by electoral defeat.
"A common thread runs through the restrictions on state election regulations imposed by Article I, the First Amendment, and the Equal Protection Clause: the Constitution does not allow elected officials to enact laws that distort the marketplace of political ideas so as to intentionally favor certain political beliefs, parties, or candidates and disfavor others," he wrote.
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