Thesaurus results for BLADES

blades

noun

plural of blade

as in swords

a hand weapon with a length of metal sharpened on one or both sides and usually tapered to a sharp point dueled with blades rather than guns

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as in knives

an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting used a small blade to cut the rope

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Recent Examples of blades Along some stretches of highway unused turbine blades line the roadsides like giant, fiberglass elephant tusks. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026 Why turbine blades are difficult to recycle A wind turbine typically has a service life of around 20–30 years. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026 The jail has issued inmates Android tablets and Englert says some have turned the heat shields into blades. — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026 The deals may be thinning out, but there are still some seriously good blades hiding around Amazon. — Francesca Krempa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026 Excess nitrogen and salts pull moisture from grass blades, leaving them dry and damaged. — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2026 The blades were smaller then, the towers shorter, the whole apparatus closer to a windmill than the hulking machines erected today—the tallest of which exceed 300 meters, with rotor blades longer than a football field. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 Lawn mower blades can also catch tree roots, which can damage your lawn mower and the tree roots, increasing the risk of diseases spreading to your tree. — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 28 Sep. 2026

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At the Palladium, James and her bandmate/husband Zachary took the stage in all-black leather, with thigh-high boots, swords, an inverted crucifix necklace and a giant silver Baphomet pendant.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Speaking of swords, Sam actually carries one around his San Francisco apartment while schmoozing with reporters over his blamelessness in the OpenAI ouster.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of swords

Noun

Witnesses told South Korean media that the attacker appeared to have knives tied to both hands and stabbed people in different parts of the mall while moving up and down the floors on an escalator.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
Great Wolf Lodge confirmed the knives weren't kept by the resort.

— Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of knives

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The 1970s marked a reinvigoration in quilting culture, with the introduction of specialty rulers and rotary cutters for use with modern patterns.

— Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
The 1,680-ton tunnel-boring machine unveiled Monday is nearly the length of two football fields and armed with cutters harder than diamonds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

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