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Golf carts resemble the Joad’s family jalopy in the film classic, The Grapes of Wrath, packed to the hilt with jumbo, floating water mats, some 20 feet in length, colossal floats better suited for the Macy’s Day Parade, and the largest sand robber of them all, the canvas beach cabana.
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Steve Cambria, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
Yet for now, Egypt’s secularists seem to be backing the military to the hilt.
—Michael J. Koplow, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2013
But one of Toranaga’s men, furious at the disrespect shown to his boss, stands to object, phrasing his protest as a polite question, then puts his hand on the hilt of his blade.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
Some cases resonate to the hilt, like that of a middle-aged man who was blind.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2024
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Steve Cambria, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
Yet for now, Egypt’s secularists seem to be backing the military to the hilt.
—Michael J. Koplow, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2013
But one of Toranaga’s men, furious at the disrespect shown to his boss, stands to object, phrasing his protest as a polite question, then puts his hand on the hilt of his blade.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
Some cases resonate to the hilt, like that of a middle-aged man who was blind.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2024
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“Hilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hilt. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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hilt
noun
: a handle especially of a sword or dagger
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