bolo

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Noun
  • Other victims included Javier Castillo, 15, of Central Islip, who was befriended by gang members only to be hacked with a machete in the head, neck, torso and extremities in an isolated marsh.
    Danielle Wallace, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2025
  • When the front desk clerk opened the door, Buxton threatened her with a machete, agency officials said.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Each foot soldier carried a ten-pound musket, a sixteen-inch bayonet, a tin canteen, a linen haversack, and his own blanket—a battlefield luxury, since in peacetime five men typically shared two blankets.
    / CBS News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
  • Baca, who has been leading these workshops since 2011, recalled a moment from one: Everett Cox, a Vietnam War veteran who had kept away from everything military for decades, responded to a prompt of action verbs by expertly stabbing and slashing with an invisible bayonet.
    Dina Litovsky, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • The final dagger came from forward Alyssa Thompson in front of a crowd of 18,504 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
    Meg Linehan, New York Times, 26 June 2025
  • Those are the choices facing America: Cutting benefits is a dagger pointed directly at the neediest Americans.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The user also posted about a knife sheath before the sheath discussed in the case.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 11 July 2025
  • The employee went home but then returned with a kitchen knife and stabbed Harris multiple times shortly before 8 a.m., police said.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • After investigating, police learned a man, later identified as Robert Dean, of New Mexico, came up behind the victim and stabbed him with a pocketknife in an unprovoked attack, officers said.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
  • Gann had twice previously tested the chemicals, the documents said, each time creating a small explosion, the second one blinding the veteran for about 20 seconds, Inside the bag was a homemade explosive device, binoculars, a pocketknife and a torch lighter.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • But nobody is scuffing the dining table with their stilettos; no one is stargazing out in the garden.
    Kitty Ruskin, Time, 26 June 2025
  • The fashion designer wore her jacket as a minidress with fishnet tights and stilettos while the soccer icon opted for a suit with loafers.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Noun
  • Brown will regain his role as the team’s backup floor general and will thrive as a cutter, screener, and transition player in his minutes with Jokic and Murray.
    Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Grossman said initially the maker space was by appointment only, but now there are open hours where people can make things with a 3D printer, a laser cutter, sublimation machines to put a design on materials, a sewing machine, embroidery equipment and more.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
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“Bolo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bolo. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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