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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In its panic it broke its antlers, shard by shard, tine by tine.
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Nor was it easy to design and make the two or more prongs or tines that distinguished the fork.
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One of the tines had been broken recently, possibly in an encounter with another bull, or perhaps with a tree.
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Walking through the old foundations, you discover broken bits of dinner plates and an occasional fork with its tines splayed.