Thesaurus results for KNIVES

knives

noun

plural of knife

as in cutters

an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting be careful in using the knife to split open the cardboard box

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Recent Examples of knives The video also clearly showed Magallan coming out of the front door of a residence with knives in his hands. —

Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026 Nature protects history and human life Inside the remarkable medieval settlement, archaeologists found moats, remains of buildings, and artifacts, 244 to be exact, including 66 knives, sickles, iron coulters, arrowheads, spearheads, and personal accessories were identified, as per Heritage Daily. —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 1 Mar. 2026 The ghastly kills are there — innards are spilled on floors, knives go through temples, heads stuck on pikes expel vomitous discharge — but there’s little of the preceding back-and-forth that made such scenes notable in the past and at least conceptually justified the grotesquerie. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026 Multi-packs of two, three, five, and even 10 knives are also available – which might be a smart idea, because something this tiny will inevitably get misplaced sooner or later. —

Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2026 Remove all knives and turn the block upside down to shake out debris. —

Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2026 Paring knives are too short to get the job done, and chef’s knives (including the gyuto) can be too unwieldy for such delicate work. —

Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 Feb. 2026 Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size). —

Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026 Every day, a steady stream of items gets left behind at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints in airports across the world, from pocket knives to headphones to peanut butter and oversized bottles of perfume. —

Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026

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Yamamoto reached into his five-pitch repertoire Saturday, mixing in six fastballs, eight splitters, five sinkers, four cutters, four curveballs and three sliders.

— Jack Vita, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
Cable-cutters can tune into the performance through a variety of Live TV streamers with access to NBC such as DirecTV, Hulu + Live TV and Sling TV (in select markets).

— Anna Tingley, Variety, 8 Feb. 2026