machete
noun
ma·chete
mə-ˈshe-tē 
-ˈche-;
-ˈshet
: a large heavy knife used for cutting sugarcane and underbrush and as a weapon
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The Mexican drug cartel hit man was found guilty of killing two people in Arlington in 2017, beheading one of the victims, and mutilating their bodies with a machete and a two-by-four.
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Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2024
In 2017, guards shot a man carrying a machete who tried to enter the museum.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
The residents, Lindor said, were part of a neighborhood vigilante group — a mix of off-duty police officers and civilians, often armed with machetes or knives, who take turns watching the neighborhood.
—Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
Through knee-jerk millennial instinct, that vulnerable bald skull always flashes me back to those unforgettable photos of Britney Spears at the gas station in 2007—head freshly shaved, eyes blank and wild, umbrella wielded as a machete.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Feb. 2024
The agony of those harrowing days loomed large for many on Sunday as Rwanda marked the 30th anniversary of the genocide in which extremists from the country’s ethnic Hutu majority killed some 800,000 people — most of them ethnic Tutsis — using machetes, clubs and guns.
—Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
For Northern Territory officials, Tuesday’s violence – and clashes later that night involving around 150 people armed with axes, machetes and knives – was the final straw.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
Among the victims are thousands of Chinese immigrants, many of them smuggled across the Mexican border to toil in often abusive conditions at farms ringed by fences, surveillance cameras and guards with guns and machetes.
—Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
In May 2023, a Canadian tourist was shot to death in Mexico's Pacific coast beach town of Puerto Escondido, days after a tourist from Argentina died after being attacked by a machete in another coastal town in Oaxaca.
—S. Dev, CBS News, 29 Feb. 2024
Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2024
In 2017, guards shot a man carrying a machete who tried to enter the museum.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
The residents, Lindor said, were part of a neighborhood vigilante group — a mix of off-duty police officers and civilians, often armed with machetes or knives, who take turns watching the neighborhood.
—Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
Through knee-jerk millennial instinct, that vulnerable bald skull always flashes me back to those unforgettable photos of Britney Spears at the gas station in 2007—head freshly shaved, eyes blank and wild, umbrella wielded as a machete.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Feb. 2024
The agony of those harrowing days loomed large for many on Sunday as Rwanda marked the 30th anniversary of the genocide in which extremists from the country’s ethnic Hutu majority killed some 800,000 people — most of them ethnic Tutsis — using machetes, clubs and guns.
—Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
For Northern Territory officials, Tuesday’s violence – and clashes later that night involving around 150 people armed with axes, machetes and knives – was the final straw.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
Among the victims are thousands of Chinese immigrants, many of them smuggled across the Mexican border to toil in often abusive conditions at farms ringed by fences, surveillance cameras and guards with guns and machetes.
—Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
In May 2023, a Canadian tourist was shot to death in Mexico's Pacific coast beach town of Puerto Escondido, days after a tourist from Argentina died after being attacked by a machete in another coastal town in Oaxaca.
—S. Dev, CBS News, 29 Feb. 2024
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machete
noun
ma·chete
mə-ˈshet-ē
-ˈchet-ē;
mə-ˈshet
: a large heavy knife used especially for cutting sugarcane and underbrush and as a weapon
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