as in blade
a hand weapon with a length of metal sharpened on one or both sides and usually tapered to a sharp point
once upon a time dueling with swords was the gentlemanly way to settle a point of honor
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Recent Examples of sword
The horse is red and in Toussaint’s hand, a sword transformed into a snake.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
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
Little would the playwright have imagined that something yet to be invented called social media would one day be more powerful than swords, bullets and bombs.
—Sandeep Gopalan, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
Fire in all its forms, literal and figurative and symbolic—the consuming ardor of desire, the irreversible incinerations of loss, the flaming swords of Genesis—is the central subject of Kelly Hoffer’s second collection Fire Series.
—Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
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
Little would the playwright have imagined that something yet to be invented called social media would one day be more powerful than swords, bullets and bombs.
—Sandeep Gopalan, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
Fire in all its forms, literal and figurative and symbolic—the consuming ardor of desire, the irreversible incinerations of loss, the flaming swords of Genesis—is the central subject of Kelly Hoffer’s second collection Fire Series.
—Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sword
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There, researchers set out to determine how the hilt and blade were joined, as well as the composition of the materials embedded in the grooves of the pommel and pommel plate.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Feb. 2026
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That’s right, the racers are required to wear leggings that cannot be sliced through by skis with edges sharp as Cuisinart blades.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2026
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London, United Kingdom — On a rainy afternoon in London, Yin Xiuzhen sits under a canopy of red, pink, purple and orange garments stretched over a steel frame.—
Precious Adesina,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Further testing discovered a hole in a steel pipe within the well, about 2,700 feet deep, a potential escape hatch for oil field wastewater.—
Nick Bowlin,
The Frontier,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Sword.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sword. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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