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smallsword

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as in saber

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His military officer's cap and saber rested on the coffin, which was flanked by men in fatigues.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
Canada’s response to Trump’s persistent tariff saber rattling has also illustrated key differences in the way North American trading partners are approaching trade in the 21st century.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of saber

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By holding a button, a simple katana suddenly becomes a 10-foot blade, or a rapier sprouts a demolition-grade power drill — all capable of viscerally dismembering and maiming foes.

— Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
Although scaled down in cast and production size to fit the 194-seat Solana Beach theater, this rollicking comedy has lost none of it rapier wit and sass.

— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2025

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While Star Wars might be known for laser swords and space wizards, it's always been about weird little dudes doing even weirder things.

— Hayes Madsen, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
The hot and dusty city streets were bathed in decorative green light to celebrate National Day, as hundreds of electronic billboards projected the sword and script of the Saudi flag, shown fluttering as if caught in a breeze.

— Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of sword

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Its head crest is shaped like a curved sword called a scimitar, and measures 20 inches long.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2026
Enter, Katara Towers, a staggering 725-foot-high behemoth of two halves fashioned to look like the curved scimitar swords on the nation’s seal.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026

Definition of scimitar

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The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.

— Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.

— Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024

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