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Recent Examples of javelins
Humans have been throwing javelins for a few hundred thousand years, yet performance has largely plateaued.
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R. Alexander Bentley,
The Conversation,
26 Feb. 2026
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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Laurent Dubois,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
The flowers and ferns of the Mani hills—purple spears, white arrows, feathery javelins—slowly flatten into the horizon.
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Antonia Quirke,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 May 2024
R. Alexander Bentley,
The Conversation,
26 Feb. 2026
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.
—
Laurent Dubois,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
The flowers and ferns of the Mani hills—purple spears, white arrows, feathery javelins—slowly flatten into the horizon.
—
Antonia Quirke,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for javelins
Noun
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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.
Noun
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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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“Javelins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/javelins. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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