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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halberds
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Mexico were being booed, booed furiously, but even that low rumble failed to drown out the whistles, hurled from the stands of the Estadio Akron with the ferocity and barb of spears.
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Instead, use the heat to cook up sides like broccolini spears or baby potatoes that taste even better next to this steak.
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Bottom cleaners use lances to scrape biofoul off hulls.
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Um dos lances mais bonitos da nossa história.
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Grasping hands reach out in despair, deities wield tridents and divine lotus flowers symbolize the 16 levels of Brahma (higher realms).
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Hoosiers can hunt frogs with bow and arrows, clubs, some firearms, or simply, their hands, but Plumier teaches those gathered at Goose Pond how to use gigs — long, multi-pronged spears that look a little bit like tridents.
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Humans have been throwing javelins for a few hundred thousand years, yet performance has largely plateaued.
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The Tofinu took refuge in the lagoons along the Bight of Benin, a core area of the slave trade, venturing forth in canoes with harpoons, javelins, and swords to fight off raiders from powerful nearby kingdoms.
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On one of the fenceposts, someone had stuck a fake head on a pike.
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Aemond promises to throw a feast in his mother's honor at Harrenhal Castle with Daemon's head looking on from a pike.
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“Halberds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halberds. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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