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throughlines

throughlines is the plural of throughline.

Meaning of throughline

Noun

throughline (plural throughlines)

  1. In full through line of action: a theme that runs through the plot of a book, film, or other narrative work, or a series of such related works.
    • Produced by none other than Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Good Boys again most closely resembles a kind of junior-varsity tryout for that duo's Superbad, down to its modestly affecting emotional through-line: an acceptance of the fact that childhood friendships, forged out of proximity and...2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021
  2. A railway route that passengers can take without needing to change trains.

Questions about throughlines

What is throughlines the plural of?
Throughlines is the plural of throughline.

Words near throughlines in the dictionary

  1. throughgoing
  2. throughgoings
  3. throughlane
  4. throughlanes
  5. throughline
  6. throughlines
  7. throughly
  8. throughness
  9. throughother
  10. throughout
  11. throughoutness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: throughlines (page history and authors); throughline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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