If there's a single thread running through Finnish music, it's a willingness to subvert norms.

NPR: The Sounds of Finnish Musical Experiments

But, he added, 80 percent of applications are still single thread.

FORBES: Software Programmers Lag Behind Hardware Developments

No single thread connects either the unicameralists or their opponents.

ECONOMIST: State legislatures

Following only the single thread of essential and essentialism through a book full of other topics makes it clear the notion of pleasure is complicated and full of contradictions.

FORBES: Beer On Trial: You Be The Jury

They say that while Jones' claim began with a single thread--that then Governor Clinton harmed her in 1991, when he allegedly exposed himself and asked for sex in a hotel room--it has since been embroidered into a garish tapestry of ancillary allegations intended to mortify.

CNN: Now It's Her Turn

Those five statements have a single common thread: the President knew each and every one of them to have been totally false.

CNN: Sen. Gorton's closed-door impeachment statement

Thanks to an engineer's trick called "wave division multiplexing, " a single fiber-optic thread can carry upwards of 10 trillion bits per second.

FORBES: Digital Rules

Acus has several meanings including a "single-prong hairpin" or "needle and thread, " she says.

WSJ: On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head

Merck, Lilly and Pfizer's common thread: They all blamed their fate (good or bad) on single drugs.

FORBES: Magazine Article

From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like a single needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing the eye of a needle.

WSJ: A Concrete Ribbon Through the Clouds | Millau Viaduct | Masterpiece by Joseph Giovannini