blade
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As Amini wrote of the glass blade, “the perfection of this form is preserved only with the mental space shared between the conceptualizing artist and the interpreting artist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
He recalled being thrown "a metre-and-a-half into the air", along with his rowing partner, when the blade of their oar hit a wave head-on.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
It didn’t explicitly say investigators believe a bird strike led to the engine fan blade fracturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Cooper described the weapon he attributed to YG as a silver blade approximately three or four inches long.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Sofya's hand froze to the propeller blade of the plane she was working on.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Then I remembered that the ceiling fan has one speed at which it rattles faintly but insistently, so I got out of bed, yanked the chain and sent the blades spinning faster.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Shares of Howmet Aerospace HWM -0.84%decrease; down pointing triangle , which makes blades for those companies’ turbines, are up 37%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Stronger and more ductile intermetallics may support the development of improved turbine blades, aircraft engines, energy systems, defense technologies, and materials designed for use in space.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
The pod-like leaf called a spathe is slightly rounder and paler than the darker, flatter blades of seagrass.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The two men kept rolling; broken blades of grass clung to their clothes like green lint.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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