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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
Technology has been the key to US prosperity since World War II, and Musk’s bitter split with the White House is symbolic of the dagger being driven through the industry’s future.
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Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
6 June 2025
The failure to produce a bidding contest represented another dagger for an airline with a history of financial troubles.
Investors and business leaders might feel as though the economy is teetering on a knife’s edge, but the data, Fed chair Jerome Powell reassured them, pointed to a solid picture—though one that was cloudier than before.
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Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
18 June 2025
Dust the pasta sheet on both sides with flour, then use a pasta cutter or sharp knife to cut dough into 1/2 -inch strips (fettuccine) or 1-inch strips (pappardelle).
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Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2025
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.
Baca, who has been leading these workshops since 2011, recalled a moment from one: Everett Cox, a Vietnam War veteran who had kept away from everything military for decades, responded to a prompt of action verbs by expertly stabbing and slashing with an invisible bayonet.
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Dina Litovsky,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
Prosecutors showed the jury photos of victims with scars left by objects including a bayonet, a burning cigarette and ropes.
The characters in Eurydice do this dance between living and dying, between feeling and forgetting, throughout the play, and are thrust again and again into heartache as a result.
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Pamela Newton
June 24,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
When a harrowing incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges and reshapes his understanding of family, freedom, and love.
Twelve suspects have been detained after 145 festival go-ers reported being pricked while at the Fête de la Musique, according to France 24 with AFP news.
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Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
24 June 2025
The doctor propped my chin in her slender hand, pricked the top of my nose twice, massaged the area for a few moments, and then added an additional drop to the side of my nose to help disguise the asymmetry.
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