cleaver

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Recent Examples of cleaver Meat cleavers were wedged between the chicken cutting table and wall. Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025 Prosecutors added, per the Republic, that Inoue had a meat cleaver with her. Nicole Acosta, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025 The oldest one, a cleaver, is from 1998, the same year the store opened. Vanessa Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025 Related Articles Zelenskyy calls for ‘armed forces of Europe’ as EU leaders bristle at new US policies on Ukraine USAID gutting hits Colorado as organizations, small businesses struggle to survive Will the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood survive the Trump administration’s cost-cutting cleaver? David Bauder, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cleaver
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Noun
  • Apple is not legally required to re-admit Fortnite, but the questions now are whether Apple is going to nitpick some specific thing to deny the app that caused all this, or whether Fortnite has somehow pushed the bounds of the results of the case to twist the knife even further.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • The man didn’t threaten anyone with the knife and soon left.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • One captain intentionally beached his boat while being pursued by a Coast Guard cutter, while another only stopped after a Coast Guard crew member fired copper slugs into the boat’s engine to disable it.
    Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • However, there soon will be some important voices to implement a more sound space policy and speak for NASA's priorities, rather than those of budget cutters.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The week before, another man high on meth armed with a machete threatened to chop the head off an employee’s three-year-old daughter.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
  • So our list of regenerative agricultural practices that are suitable for the coffee sector are, for instance, to cut the arms with the scissor and not with the machete.
    Christopher Marquis, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Brunson scored eight points in the game’s final 5:04, including a 3-pointer with 2:25 remaining that gave the Knicks a 116-104 lead and served as the dagger.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025
  • More symbolic may be the dagger tattoo on his left forearm.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 9 May 2025

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“Cleaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleaver. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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