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blade

[blayd] / bleɪd /
NOUN
cutting tool
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Working inside a refrigerated metal chamber, she carefully adjusts a mounted tumor, roughly the size of a pinkie fingernail, toward a sharp cutting blade.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Shekhar, who neglected to pack a razor blade and asks to borrow one, is persuaded not to shave after polling his friends, who also intend, at first, to rough it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The company is even investigating lasers and ultrasound as potentially speedier methods of slicing pizzas than a traditional knife blade.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

I’m pretty sure my tears soaked his shoulder blade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Nighthand pulled the glamry blade slowly from his belt.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

In particular, birch tar would have helped them attach stone blades or points to wooden handles, a technique known as hafting.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Head coach of the Steel Queens' elite squad, Beth Dias-Scoon, swapped roller blades for ice skates at the age of seven.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The green bollards seen on Bellflower Boulevard and Studebaker before the redo often get hit by cars and can resemble thick blades of stomped grass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Musk has purchased a turbine manufacturer and said on X recently that SpaceX will start making the blades and vanes that go into natural-gas-fired power turbines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Come on,” he says, slapping me between the shoulder blades.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen


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