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as in sword
a hand weapon with a length of metal sharpened on one or both sides and usually tapered to a sharp point
dueled with blades rather than guns
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as in knife
an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting
used a small blade to cut the rope
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Recent Examples of blade
Like sailboats, ice boats are wind-powered, but sit upon three ice blades.
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Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2026
The blades can also take a frustratingly long time to reach their full speed.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2026
Among the features Swiss Timing’s new systems provide is blade angle detection, which gives judges precise technical data to augment their technical and aesthetic decisions.
—Maurizio Arseni, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2026
Her family, her friends and the relationships that maintained significance when the blades came off.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
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Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2026
The blades can also take a frustratingly long time to reach their full speed.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2026
Among the features Swiss Timing’s new systems provide is blade angle detection, which gives judges precise technical data to augment their technical and aesthetic decisions.
—Maurizio Arseni, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2026
Her family, her friends and the relationships that maintained significance when the blades came off.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blade
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The horse is red and in Toussaint’s hand, a sword transformed into a snake.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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Renato is introduced by way of sunlight gleaming off what looks like the blade of a sword but turns out to be the shaft of a golf club.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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Becoming a master of quadruple jumps that no one else can land, rising with all the ease of a young Michael Jordan—before landing on a pair of butcher knives, on ice.—
Stephanie Bai,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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The salesperson in the custom knife shop with a $1,200 pizza cutter on offer — albeit the most beautiful pizza cutter I, personally, have ever seen — said that more customers had started to trickle in now that the fervor on Main Street had died down and the roads were clearer.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Feb. 2026
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The salesperson in the custom knife shop with a $1,200 pizza cutter on offer — albeit the most beautiful pizza cutter I, personally, have ever seen — said that more customers had started to trickle in now that the fervor on Main Street had died down and the roads were clearer.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Feb. 2026
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Gently swirl the glass or cutter in a circular motion until the edges become smooth and even.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Blade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blade. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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