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The popular host of The Running Man is Bobby T. (played to the hilt by Colman Domingo), a slick showman whose commentary is both unctuous and sadistic.
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
One of the officers, a special-forces commando who discussed the operation on condition of anonymity, recalls lying in the pitch-dark belly of a river barge alongside dozens of his comrades, all of them armed to the hilt, eyeing one another through night-vision goggles.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
The apprentice dismantles the hilt almost by instinct and slips the crystal from within.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
Fire dances off the hilt of the katana in her hand.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
One of the officers, a special-forces commando who discussed the operation on condition of anonymity, recalls lying in the pitch-dark belly of a river barge alongside dozens of his comrades, all of them armed to the hilt, eyeing one another through night-vision goggles.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
The apprentice dismantles the hilt almost by instinct and slips the crystal from within.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
Fire dances off the hilt of the katana in her hand.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Hilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hilt. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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hilt
noun
: a handle especially of a sword or dagger
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