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trenchant

[tren-chuhnt] / ˈtrɛn tʃənt /


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Commander John Lewis, captain of nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine HMS Trenchant, allowed the party at Devonport dockyard in Plymouth.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2020

The De Putron money came via Gloucester Research, which changed its name to GR Software & Research, then to Trenchant, and now trades under yet another name, G-Research.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2014

Trenchant and aching from its inception in 2005, Mr. Muhly’s piece sounded anthemic here: a sublime example of precisely the kind of collaborative vision the Ecstatic Music Festival was formed to celebrate.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2011

Submarine Trenchant: a mysterious explosion in the batteries injured four seamen at sea off Scotland in June 1950.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus was I constrained to signe their Passe-port, and forthwith to grant them certaine mariners, with Trenchant an honest and skilfull Pilot.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard




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