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Rather than save Himself, Jesus followed precisely the path of moral justice to the Golgotha, awakening a moral revulsion against the war makers that spread across humankind, giving hope that swords would one day be beaten into plowshares.
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Kary Love, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Beating swords into plowshares and making war no more proved a fantasy.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
The ultimate agreement was dramatic, the official announcement filled with references to beating swords into plowshares.
—Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 30 Dec. 2024
The male plowshare is either insufficiently horny or just slow to get down to business, so he’s returned to his own enclosure.
—Lane Brown, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2024
More:Churches in metro Detroit to turn guns into plowshares through buyback programs
What is the penalty for violating an Extreme Risk Protection Order?
—John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2024
The tech sector has played a vital role in the war effort: turning plowshares into swords; converting civilian drones into weapons; repurposing skills to turn coders into cyberwarriors; and creating platforms and apps to source, fund, connect.
—WIRED, 10 July 2023
For bread, all vanished into an emptiness thirsty as old iron, a plowshare Left in a fallow field for decades beside a snakeskin wound through the eyehole Of a steer’s skull.
—The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
The back yard, occasionally used as a party space, was bare, save for a medieval-style plowshare.
—Ian Volner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
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Kary Love, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Beating swords into plowshares and making war no more proved a fantasy.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
The ultimate agreement was dramatic, the official announcement filled with references to beating swords into plowshares.
—Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 30 Dec. 2024
The male plowshare is either insufficiently horny or just slow to get down to business, so he’s returned to his own enclosure.
—Lane Brown, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2024
More:Churches in metro Detroit to turn guns into plowshares through buyback programs
What is the penalty for violating an Extreme Risk Protection Order?
—John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2024
The tech sector has played a vital role in the war effort: turning plowshares into swords; converting civilian drones into weapons; repurposing skills to turn coders into cyberwarriors; and creating platforms and apps to source, fund, connect.
—WIRED, 10 July 2023
For bread, all vanished into an emptiness thirsty as old iron, a plowshare Left in a fallow field for decades beside a snakeskin wound through the eyehole Of a steer’s skull.
—The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
The back yard, occasionally used as a party space, was bare, save for a medieval-style plowshare.
—Ian Volner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
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“Plowshare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plowshare. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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plowshare
noun
plow·share
-ˌshe(ə)r 
-ˌsha(ə)r
: the part of a plow that cuts the earth
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