tine
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Differences in the concentrations of an odorant sensed by each tine of a snake’s forked tongue help the snake home in on quarry it can’t see.
From Science Magazine ● May 24, 2023
And Kareem and programs like Kareem’s is one tine on the fork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Ersson, a 23-year-old Swede, allowed five goals on 22 shots before Hart, who leads tine NHL in shots faced this season, replaced him.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
A minute later, he'd fish them out with the tine of a fork and pile them, dripping, onto the paper-towel-lined plate.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2021
Each tine struck a different Sixer avatar in the chest while somehow arcing harmlessly around everyone else.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Vernice eventually realizes that she and her friend have taken “different tines at the fork in the road.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
The complaints roll in: The fork tines are too stubby, the dessert spoon holds its contents hostage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
The stag's antlers, now fully hardened and velvet‑free, regrow each spring, becoming more impressive with each year as new points called tines develop.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
“This sounds trite at this point, but in true Italian-American style, some of my earliest memories are helping my nonna roll gnocchi down the tines of a fork,” she said.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
After dessert, after I’d picked up every morsel of that delicious key-lime pie with my fork tines, I said to Ben, “Hey. How about showing me that new hamster you got for Christmas?”
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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The Tower of Nero
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