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broadsword

[brawd-sawrd, -sohrd] / ˈbrɔdˌsɔrd, -ˌsoʊrd /


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Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh described the film as “a social satire that wields a scalpel, not a cleaving broadsword, as it surgically slices through the many hypocrisies of the culture industry at large.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

The public will be able to see the solid-silver-hilted broadsword from March next year.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2023

“Trying to pick a single sector to outperform the market is like trying to hit a piñata with a broadsword after you’ve been blindfolded and spun around.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2022

The visitor points to a jutting I-beam - a rusting broadsword stuck in a metal mound - and wonders how Eisner could get it into her studio.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2016

When I heard this I slung my silver-hilted broadsword on, and shouldered my long bow, and said, ‘Come, take me back the way you came.’

From "The Odyssey" by Homer


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