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Recent Examples of bowie knifeWhen the Republican Charles Sumner was struck down by a Southerner on the Senate floor, Raymond’s paper called for armed resistance by pistol, bludgeon, and bowie knife, if necessary.—Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 The speaker that February night was Cassius Marcellus Clay, a bold and brawling Kentucky abolitionist, equally skilled with a stump speech and a bowie knife.—Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024 Aside from their build, bowie knives serve multiple outdoor purposes.—Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023 Adams recklessly tossed aside his rifle and jumped down a bank to chase the wolf with his bowie knife.—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2018 During a mob scene, Thumbelina stabs one of the movie’s villains with a bowie knife before jumping on a table and mowing down the police with a machine gun.—Matthew Sedacca, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
Leipold said in his postgame press conference that a pocketknife had been thrown during the game and had hit a member of Kansas’ staff.
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Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
Investigators allegedly recovered evidence from Louisma's car, including a pocketknife with blood stains on it, machetes, a rope, a roll of duct tape, pink HeyDude shoes, and a cut up pink shirt with duct tape wrapped around it, CBS2 Iowa reports.
Hacking a path through dense jungle with a machete.
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Kit Bernardi,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
Bohler is reportedly accused of approaching Rakeem Tayquon Young, 34, while Young was walking his dog, Chanel, and pulling out a machete while threatening to kill the animal.
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