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Spears

British  
/ spɪəz /

noun

  1. Britney (ˈbrɪtnɪ). born 1981, US pop singer; records include the single "Baby One More Time" (1998) and the album Britney (2001)

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Now that darkness had fallen, a ring of fires had sprung up around it, and men with spears and birch-bark horns were keeping watch.

From Literature

Perhaps most notably, pop star Britney Spears was in one run by her family for more than a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal

The armor may be topped by a dragon-crested helmet with radiating, gilded spears and a wooden mask expressing something between a grimace and a yell, but below this fierce face its shoulder and shin guards drape from a vacant iron cuirass like limp puppet appendages.

From The Wall Street Journal

His sprechgesang vocals also recall Ian Dury, while there are little keyboard motifs that nod to the Steve Miller Band's Abracadabra, and a melodic flourish that resembles the "swagger of a champion" line from Britney Spears' Womanizer.

From BBC

Pop superstar Britney Spears was released from police custody Thursday morning after being arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated near Los Angeles, according to legal filings and US media reports.

From Barron's