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Recent Examples of cutlass
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.
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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
In that post, she could be seen dressed in a pirate costume, complete with a large hat, knee-high black boots and a cutlass sword.
—Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
Flashes of that larger story do shine through, and the book advances Graeber’s mission: to destabilize our idea of what’s possible and show that humans can, and often do, create egalitarian worlds built on points of consensus instead of the sharp end of a cutlass.
—Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
The pipe’s walls, between 400 and 600 feet long, reach a vertiginous 22 feet, and its edges are cutlass sharp, leaving little to the eye but a cleaved sky.
—Nick Remsen, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2022
Marse, where the picong sharp like cutlass and cutting politician down to size and making fun of everything that taking itself too serious.
—M Nourbese Philip, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2021
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
In that post, she could be seen dressed in a pirate costume, complete with a large hat, knee-high black boots and a cutlass sword.
—Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
Flashes of that larger story do shine through, and the book advances Graeber’s mission: to destabilize our idea of what’s possible and show that humans can, and often do, create egalitarian worlds built on points of consensus instead of the sharp end of a cutlass.
—Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
The pipe’s walls, between 400 and 600 feet long, reach a vertiginous 22 feet, and its edges are cutlass sharp, leaving little to the eye but a cleaved sky.
—Nick Remsen, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2022
Marse, where the picong sharp like cutlass and cutting politician down to size and making fun of everything that taking itself too serious.
—M Nourbese Philip, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutlass
Noun
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By holding a button, a simple katana suddenly becomes a 10-foot blade, or a rapier sprouts a demolition-grade power drill — all capable of viscerally dismembering and maiming foes.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025
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The fabric is produced on a double rapier loom in a width of 50 cm (19.7 in) at whatever length is needed.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Instead, woolly mammoths and scimitar cats prowl the icy landscape.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
28 Nov. 2025
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All the members of the oryx family-the fringe-ear of Kenya and Tanzania; the Beisa of Kenya north of the Tana River, Somaliland, and Ethiopia; the white or scimitar-horned oryx of the Sahara desert-are traditionally tough and hard to kill.—
Jack O'Connor,
Outdoor Life,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Look past the saber rattling and campaign rhetoric.—
Brian Jones,
Oc Register,
6 Jan. 2026
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The flame-wielder is a tough match for Mecha Man, necessitating some extrajudicial aggression as Robert lops off two of his opponent’s fingers with a beam saber.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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With fire and broadsword came pestilence, in the form of a sickness called Morrisania fever, which carried off many Refugees.—
Ian Frazier,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2024
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In 2019, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas stabbed the balloon of sky-high expectations of his candidacy with a broadsword of a meltdown in Miami.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
23 Aug. 2023
Noun
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The Tofinu took refuge in the lagoons along the Bight of Benin, a core area of the slave trade, venturing forth in canoes with harpoons, javelins, and swords to fight off raiders from powerful nearby kingdoms.—
Laurent Dubois,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Police began to de-escalate the situation ever since the suspect answered the door around noon Sunday, armed with a sword and acting aggressively toward officers.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Cutlass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutlass. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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