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Recent Examples of pocketknife
Other items found on Mangione or in his bag included a pocketknife, driver’s license, passport, credit cards, AirPods, protein bar, travel toothpaste and flash drives.
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Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
Other photos depicted the clothes Mangione was wearing at the time of his arrest, along with a pocketknife, zip ties and personal effects.
—Cameron Schoppa, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
The two did not interact before Brown stabbed Zarutska with a pocketknife, surveillance video from Charlotte Area Transit System showed.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 25 Nov. 2025
When the juveniles returned to take a picture of the vehicle’s license plate, Mumme allegedly exited the building and confronted them with a pocketknife, police said.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
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Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
Other photos depicted the clothes Mangione was wearing at the time of his arrest, along with a pocketknife, zip ties and personal effects.
—Cameron Schoppa, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
The two did not interact before Brown stabbed Zarutska with a pocketknife, surveillance video from Charlotte Area Transit System showed.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 25 Nov. 2025
When the juveniles returned to take a picture of the vehicle’s license plate, Mumme allegedly exited the building and confronted them with a pocketknife, police said.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pocketknife
Noun
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There is an art to cutting a cantaloupe, which starts long before grabbing the knife and cutting board.—
Alexandra Frost,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
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Excavations also revealed pits containing pottery, bones and a symbolic flint knife, suggesting the area may have hosted ceremonial gatherings long before Stonehenge became the iconic monument seen today.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
Noun
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According to several social media posts on X, someone reportedly brandishing a machete was allegedly shot by an officer or officers.—
Kairi Lowery,
Miami Herald,
21 June 2026
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Shede Mao, 55, is accused in a criminal complaint and police affidavit of using a machete and dumbbells to slash and bludgeon the 49-year-old victim, whose name had not been formally released by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office as of Wednesday.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
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Messi delivers the dagger Despite thoroughly controlling most of the match, the result was still in doubt late in the second half as Argentina squandered a few opportunities to increase its lead.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 June 2026
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Failing to closely examine the word being wielded like a dagger by one’s own white mother is a shame and a disappointment.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
Noun
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By Ali Wunderman June 28, 2021 The Most Dangerous Animals in the World Horns, fangs, and switchblade faces can all be found on these deadly creatures.—
Hannah Towey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Apr. 2026
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It’s been a quarter century since the mostly Canadian supergroup New Pornographers sprang from the florid imagination of Carl Newman, a pop savant with an angel’s voice and switchblade wit.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Pitchfork,
8 Apr. 2026
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In all three cases, the light-saber-like lighting unit itself quickly attaches/detaches to and from a bayonet mount at the rear end of the main bracket.—
Ben Coxworth
May 15,
New Atlas,
15 May 2026
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The assailant stabbed the pope with a bayonet, but the assassination attempt was unsuccessful.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
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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.—
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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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
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Ballet pink stiletto nails narrow to an airbrushed nude point, with leopard spots and silver chrome stars.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
InStyle,
23 June 2026
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Christian Louboutin’s Miss Z pumps covered the foot in mirror-bright Vintage Rose laminated calf leather, narrowing into a tapered point above a 100mm stiletto and the house’s red sole.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
22 June 2026
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When the Republican Charles Sumner was struck down by a Southerner on the Senate floor, Raymond’s paper called for armed resistance by pistol, bludgeon, and bowie knife, if necessary.—
Matthew Karp,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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The speaker that February night was Cassius Marcellus Clay, a bold and brawling Kentucky abolitionist, equally skilled with a stump speech and a bowie knife.—
Jon Grinspan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2024
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“Pocketknife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pocketknife. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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