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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a thread of a" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a specific aspect or element of something, but it lacks context to be usable.
Example: "There is a thread of a story that connects all the characters in the novel."
Alternatives: "a strand of" or "an element of".
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Given a thread of a hint of a tissue of a suspicion, she demands: "What does she look like?
In 1999, he and Buchanan moved from Manhattan to a salt box house on a thread of a road in rural Connecticut.
On the second day we climbed away from the lush quilt of barley in the Shang valley to a thread of a path through the cliffs.
There is a thread of a connection here because long before the Pistols, McLaren managed the New York Dolls, trying to shock life into their dying career by dressing them as communists.
Google has a number of initiatives aimed at entrepreneurs globally, and a thread of a strategy appears to be emerging in Europe, albeit with different approaches.
The use of military means to achieve political ends is a thread of a rich discussion, one that reaches back through the ages.
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As a last step, we identified emergent themes, each one being a thread of an underlying meaning on an interpretative level [ 14].
Themes are "a thread of an underlying meaning through condensed meaning units, codes or categories, on an interpretative level" (p.107) [ 27].
Graneheim and Lundman describe a theme as "a thread of an underlying meaning through the condensed meaning units, codes or categories on an interpretative level", and thus answering the question 'How?' [ 45], p 107.
For an everyday analogy, think of a thread of cotton.
Not a thread of merino wool, not a sniff of a designer label.
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