blade
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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
Hanging from the rafters, the tip of its blade points down ominously over viewers’ heads, emphasizing both the danger of the weapon and its fragility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Then he began to run the bow up and down across the dull edge of the saw, bending the blade back and forth as the sweet, sweet music started up again.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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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
The light design of the rotors also means that if there is an engine failure, the light blades can lose their momentum in rotation quickly, Cress said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Four wickets down and Saud Shakeel and Babar Azam were extravagantly flashing their blades outside off stump.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Howmet and Berkshire Hathaway’s Precision Castparts are the two biggest players in the market for these parts, which also include blades and vanes for the aerospace and defense sectors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
They don't realize that floating in the air on dust particles, lurking on fingertips, or growing on the shiny steel blades of their unwashed surgical scalpels are single-celled bacteria and other microscopic life forms.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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