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as in tine

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Bride said advocates have to employ a three-prong approach, utilizing legislation, litigation and education. — ABC News, 26 June 2026 First, put the casters and gas cylinder in the five-prong base. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026

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The chat reportedly suggested the members had strong ties to the police force, which then brought police corruption into the multi-pronged scandal. — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2019 Few hardware manufacturers have convinced other game makers that their strange, proprietary chips—full of multi-pronged, work-in-tandem processors or cores—are worth those system-specific headaches. — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2018 See All Example Sentences for prong

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Noun

Use a rake with short straight tines to pull up thatch from small areas.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
It is also used like a rake, except that the goal is to dig down with the tines to pull up thatch and remove it.

— David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 21 May 2026

Definition of tine

Verb

The Test Kitchen prefers perforated grill baskets ($30, Amazon).

— Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2026
This fat line fed a series of narrower pipes in the tower, which ran along the corners of every floor, wall, and ceiling, and were perforated to spray gas into the rooms.

— Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026

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That was an emotional accomplishment because Harvick was thrust into that seat after the great Dale Earnhart was killed in a crash in the last turn of the last lap of the Daytona 500 on February 18, 2001.

— Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
But only in recent years has raw milk, which once drew a fringe crowd, been thrust into the mainstream.

— Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 23 July 2026

Definition of thrust

Verb

Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.

— CNN, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
For six weeks last summer the DC-8 and a pair of Twin Otters similarly quilled with atmospheric-sampling instruments flew through more than 100 different columns.

— Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020

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