1
: the bow of a ship : stem
2
: a pointed projecting front part
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
The Farrells caught the late-summer green chile wave in the late 1980s while living among Federal Boulevard’s legendary chile stands and soon came up with the idea of tossing them into a pad kra prow, a spicy chicken stir fry with basil.
—Kathleen St. John, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2024
So long as the pirates had their prows pointed in the right direction, their work was good for business.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
The vaguely hallucinatory near-consensus formed that Harris, little more than a gaffe-prone afterthought for most of the Biden Presidency, was now perhaps the prow of the Republic’s ship.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
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Noun
Everyone learned from Gretzky how to use the net as a pick or a prow, how to manipulate patterns, how to involve teammates.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
The Farrells caught the late-summer green chile wave in the late 1980s while living among Federal Boulevard’s legendary chile stands and soon came up with the idea of tossing them into a pad kra prow, a spicy chicken stir fry with basil.
—Kathleen St. John, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2024
So long as the pirates had their prows pointed in the right direction, their work was good for business.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
The vaguely hallucinatory near-consensus formed that Harris, little more than a gaffe-prone afterthought for most of the Biden Presidency, was now perhaps the prow of the Republic’s ship.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
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“Prow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prow. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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