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a sharp pointed knife that is used as a weapon
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Recent Examples of daggers
There will be mass hallucinations, legal exorcisms, shady book launderers, and scarlet daggers.
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Willa Rubin, NPR, 1 May 2026
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
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
Most of the crowd is talking quietly among themselves, oblivious to Trevor Yeakley’s gaze, except for two men staring daggers right back at him.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
Sam Hauser hit three of those six daggers early in the fourth and Derrick White hit two.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
Played with underdog vulnerability by the British actor, Father Jud opens his arms to everyone and gets daggers in return.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
This shop, which features striking geometric styles, is attached to a museum that holds more than 2,500 objects—textiles, coins, daggers, and jewelry—collected by the owners’ late father.
—Gayatri Shah, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
There are the clever visual gags allowed by animation, like characters who quite literally shoot daggers at one another while locked in a glaring match; there are many jokes at the imperious, overconfident Marioneta’s expense.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Willa Rubin, NPR, 1 May 2026
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
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
Most of the crowd is talking quietly among themselves, oblivious to Trevor Yeakley’s gaze, except for two men staring daggers right back at him.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
Sam Hauser hit three of those six daggers early in the fourth and Derrick White hit two.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
Played with underdog vulnerability by the British actor, Father Jud opens his arms to everyone and gets daggers in return.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
This shop, which features striking geometric styles, is attached to a museum that holds more than 2,500 objects—textiles, coins, daggers, and jewelry—collected by the owners’ late father.
—Gayatri Shah, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
There are the clever visual gags allowed by animation, like characters who quite literally shoot daggers at one another while locked in a glaring match; there are many jokes at the imperious, overconfident Marioneta’s expense.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daggers
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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
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Soldiers were known to use bayonets, rocks, and even gunfire to get their cans open.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
28 Aug. 2025
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Right-hander Grant Holmes started throwing effective cutters, and the Rockies failed to adjust.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
2 May 2026
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In the summer of 1917, six United States Coast Guard cutters were sent overseas on convoy duty for the war, and the Tampa was the only one that never returned.—
Stephen Smith,
CBS News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Decadent art, with its mannerism, also its enthusiasm for skulls, swords, strippers, and other Hot Topic motifs, is for some art historians an embarrassing cul-de-sac best passed over in favor of a narrative of formal progress leading inevitably to abstraction.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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During the service, it is presented along with a number of spiritual ornaments, including the sovereign's orb and several swords, per the Royal Collection Trust.—
Alex Gurley,
PEOPLE,
26 Apr. 2026
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Some models feature replaceable blades, like the Milk Street Kitchen Precision peeler, which retails for $30, but by peeler standards that’s high.—
Jennifer Zyman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Apr. 2026
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The magic of the molcajete, a pre-Hispanic mortar and pestle, is its ability to extract oils in a way the blades of a food processor can’t.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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