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spear

noun as in lance

noun as in weapon

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He represents something between the pointy end of the spear and City’s personal nuclear warhead.

He also "didn't want to be standing on stage holding a spear for the rest of my life, in wrinkled tights, I just wanted to have a bit of a life".

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Jackson no longer has a face, but his hair is speared by a portion of his horse’s upper thigh.

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Crucially, the company can be the tip of the spear for its partners to secure contracts and win customers.

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That database only tracks "unprovoked" incidents – excluding those potentially encouraged by humans through activities such as spear fishing – but a fuller database of all recorded shark interactions in Australia is maintained by Taronga Conservation Society.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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