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Recent Examples of tine
The buck has wide bases and massive beams, with distinctive curls to the end of many of its tines.
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Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Jan. 2025
Examples include kickers, stickers, drop tines, and other unique antler points.
—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
Poke the top of each one once or twice with the tines of a fork to let steam out.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
This bundle includes a lead and cadmium-free black porcelain matcha pouring bowl, bamboo tea whisk with 80 delicate tines, fine stainless steel mesh sifter and a Chashaku bamboo scoop to easily measure your matcha.
—Chelsea Frank, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Jan. 2025
Examples include kickers, stickers, drop tines, and other unique antler points.
—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
Poke the top of each one once or twice with the tines of a fork to let steam out.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
This bundle includes a lead and cadmium-free black porcelain matcha pouring bowl, bamboo tea whisk with 80 delicate tines, fine stainless steel mesh sifter and a Chashaku bamboo scoop to easily measure your matcha.
—Chelsea Frank, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tine
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The original resolution said traffic enforcement would be one prong of Sacramento’s approach to ending fatal crashes.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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In reality, the book and the article were the twin prongs of an elaborate hoax — but an important and influential one, Tinline explains in this entertaining history, with reverberations that have lasted into the present era of QAnon and Deep State conspiracy theories.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Tine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tine. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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