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blade

[blayd] / bleɪd /
NOUN
cutting tool
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The opening credits spoof the iconic James Bond gun barrel signature, with Jason slashing his long blade instead of shooting a gun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

Making these parts requires the blade to be “grown” in a vacuum furnace as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, according to Nigel Chiang, an analyst at SemiAnalysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Its curved blade, chipped and rusted, with a gilded, possibly brass, hilt featuring a lion on the end, is too delicate to hold.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

Morgan Stanley’s report noted that “we would not expect SpaceX to be a material supplier of blades and vanes for supply outside of SpaceX use.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“You’re crying,” he said, which was stupidly obvious; but seeing her that way took the wind out of his helicopter blades, so to speak.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan


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