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Recent Examples of trident
Among them were horseshoes, nails, axes, a fishing trident, coins and keys, officials said.
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Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Raleigh celebrated with his teammates in the dugout, carrying around the Mariners’ trident, which is given to all players who hit a home run.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Once Mbappe returned to fitness, Alonso tried to filed all of him, Vinicius and Gonzalo in an attacking trident.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The trident that is the company’s emblem is a replica of the one found in the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 May 2025
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Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Raleigh celebrated with his teammates in the dugout, carrying around the Mariners’ trident, which is given to all players who hit a home run.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Once Mbappe returned to fitness, Alonso tried to filed all of him, Vinicius and Gonzalo in an attacking trident.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The trident that is the company’s emblem is a replica of the one found in the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trident
spear
Noun
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Using tools only of stone, bone, and shell, Islanders made wooden spears and clubs, and canoes built from planks stitched together with plant fibers and fitted with outriggers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Other examples of ancient wooden tools include a set of spears from Germany and 300,000-year-old Chinese digging sticks that may have been used to harvest plants.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Trident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trident. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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