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a long blade that is attached to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon in battle
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Recent Examples of bayonets
Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Nov. 2025
Soldiers were known to use bayonets, rocks, and even gunfire to get their cans open.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
Back on Lexington Common, British troops are sweeping forward, bayonets fixed.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025
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Audiences are immersed in the horrors of the war, which was fought eyeball to eyeball by landless men wielding muskets, unreliable rifles and terrifying bayonets.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Nov. 2025
Soldiers were known to use bayonets, rocks, and even gunfire to get their cans open.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
Back on Lexington Common, British troops are sweeping forward, bayonets fixed.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bayonets
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Many of the thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets brandished weapons including guns and daggers, while others waved Lebanese, Palestinian, Iranian and Hezbollah flags.—
Billy Stockwell,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026
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That was plenty of time for SGA to reach into his bag of daggers and go right back at the Nuggets.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Transit Ambassadors are not peace officers and cannot carry firearms or knives, according to RT.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, bronze knives and arrowheads were identified, along with seashells.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Smith swung and missed at two cutters from Red Sox starter Brayan Bello to begin the plate appearance.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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A couple of cutters, couple of good sliders.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Bayonets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bayonets. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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