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Recent Examples of dirk
Noun
Misdemeanor carry concealed dirk or dagger, 3000 block Ocean Front Walk, 1:18 p.m.—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025 Carry concealed dirk or dagger – 400 block of Santa Fe Drive, 11:12 a.m.
DUI – 0 block of La Costa Avenue, 3:32 a.m.—Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2025 California, which is also in the Ninth Circuit, bans the possession of an even wider assortment of bladed weapons, including dirks, daggers, ballistic knives, belt buckle knives, lipstick case knives, cane swords, and more.—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2023 On Tuesday, Adam Abdul-Jabbar was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of carrying a dirk or dagger and three enhancements of inflicting great bodily injury, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office.—Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 26 Aug. 2020 From 2014 to 2016, Tabares bounced in and out of Orange County jails for misdemeanor convictions including disturbing the peace, carrying a dirk or dagger, possession of an opium pipe and resisting arrest.—Hannah Fry, Daily Pilot, 28 Sep. 2017 The battle fades around them as the two engage in an intimate fight to the death: BJR stabs Jamie in the leg and Jamie forces his dirk into Black Jack's side.—Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Sep. 2017 Daggers, dirks, throwing knives, swords and machetes.—Editors, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017 Male, 48, arrested, South 14th and Main streets, carry concealed dirk or dagger.—Ramona Sentinel, 26 July 2017
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.
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Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2025
More symbolic may be the dagger tattoo on his left forearm.
The man didn’t threaten anyone with the knife and soon left.
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Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
13 May 2025
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.
Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.
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CNN,
CNN,
2 Nov. 2022
Visitors can view a variety of media including textiles—such as Navajo artist D.Y. Begay’s Southwest landscape painting on wool—beadwork, sculpture, photography, film and even clothing attire such as beaded and quilled Louboutin shoes.
But their happy romance is soon demolished when Jenny reappears in their lives, thrusting all three into a difficult and messy journey towards true accountability and adulthood.
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Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
16 May 2025
Another truncated start would’ve thrust Houston’s plans for a six-man rotation into serious doubt.
It is performed 24 to 48 hours after birth and involves pricking a baby’s heel to collect a blood sample, which is analyzed for metabolic, hormonal, and genetic disorders.
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William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
At Griffith's house on the day of his death, Kelly remembers chuckling that the police officers milling around kept getting pricked by his cactuses, knowing that Griffith would have appreciated that, given his formerly adversarial relationship with law enforcement.
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