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Recent Examples of halberd
Those Swiss guards would take that halberd and just take you down.
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Brenton Blanchet,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
During different events, the guards will add white gloves, a black helmet and/or the halberd.
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Greta Cross,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
The retainer then struck her down with a halberd, set the mansion ablaze, and committed seppuku.
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Nicholas Liu,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2024
Also, his halberd starts fritzing on the floor before fading out of existence, a reminder that this is all virtual reality—or rather, VR within VR, the metatextual framing of Ubisoft’s latest Assassin’s Creed game.
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WIRED,
16 Nov. 2023
For the uninitiated, a halberd is a medieval weapon that looks like a combination of a spear and an axe.
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cleveland.com,
18 May 2017
Brenton Blanchet,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
During different events, the guards will add white gloves, a black helmet and/or the halberd.
—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
The retainer then struck her down with a halberd, set the mansion ablaze, and committed seppuku.
—
Nicholas Liu,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2024
Also, his halberd starts fritzing on the floor before fading out of existence, a reminder that this is all virtual reality—or rather, VR within VR, the metatextual framing of Ubisoft’s latest Assassin’s Creed game.
—
WIRED,
16 Nov. 2023
For the uninitiated, a halberd is a medieval weapon that looks like a combination of a spear and an axe.
—
cleveland.com,
18 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for halberd
Noun
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The club's name is a reference to the trident, Ukraine's national symbol.
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The Kings’ success will rest in how well Los Angeles adapts to Laviolette’s coaching trident.
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The unrest began in mid-March but has intensified, leaving at least three dead as vigilantes armed with spears, clubs, and whips assaulted migrants and destroyed their homes.
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Activities found every weekend at the Midsummer Fantasy Renaissance Faire include axe or spear throwing, archery, dagger tossing, a Fight the Knight Challenge and a scavenger hunt.
Noun
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There are cool weapons, like a lethal surface-to-air dragon harpoon.
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Kitchen utensils hung from a harpoon for catching octopus, and a wicker basket of swim fins sat expectantly by the open door.
Noun
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Bottom cleaners use lances to scrape biofoul off hulls.
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Um dos lances mais bonitos da nossa história.
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Most fishermen confine their angling to early morning and late evening, and the pike fishermen of early spring have given up in disgust.
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Nebraska's Dyson Wicker won the pole vault at an NCAA-leading 19-2 1/4, and Texas A&M senior Zaza Nnamdi took javelin at 269-10.
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In the girls field events, South Hadley’s Natalie Rios threw her personal best and achieved third best javelin throw in the state at 125-04.
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“Halberd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halberd. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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