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Nicola Leigh Stewart, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2023
Needing help, Din ends up turning to a group of Anzellan droid smiths, who inform him that the only way to get his friend back is to track down a specific part.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
In the armed forces tournament, eight members redeploy to the forge and go head-to-head against one other smith in a five-hour battle.
—Washington Post, 21 July 2021
Gränsfors Bruk axe heads are stamped with the initials of the smith who forged them.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 12 May 2020
Every custom smith either began by imitating the Model 3 or currently does and calls it by another name.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Sep. 2019
Folders are the true test of a smith’s skill as a machinist and designer.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 16 Feb. 2019
And those shopkeepers and smiths had been defeated, dismissed, and sent scurrying to the valley of misery.
—Richard Brady, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
Water service has not been interrupted so far as the transition is already underway, Stutz smith said.
—Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2019
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Word History
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German smid smith and probably to Greek smilē wood-carving knife
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Smith.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smith. Accessed 9 Jul. 2023.
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