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Recent Examples of stiletto
De Palma unpacks one in the accompanying film, going so far as to speak into a stiletto like a telephone.
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Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
Larsson declared before picking up her right foot and showing that the stiletto was missing a heel.
—Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
Wearing stilettos in cobbled Lisbon can be particularly tricky.
—Catarina Loureiro, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2026
And Just Like That, including designer clothing, Manhattan-traversing stilettos, kitschy furniture, and memorabilia from Big’s death.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2026
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Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
Larsson declared before picking up her right foot and showing that the stiletto was missing a heel.
—Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
Wearing stilettos in cobbled Lisbon can be particularly tricky.
—Catarina Loureiro, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2026
And Just Like That, including designer clothing, Manhattan-traversing stilettos, kitschy furniture, and memorabilia from Big’s death.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stiletto
Noun
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But the award has to go to Matheus Cunha’s long-range dagger — a dramatic late winner curled past Gabriel’s desperate lunge and David Raya’s despairing dive into the bottom corner — to set the away crowd into rapturous applause.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
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The Blue Jays have plenty to reflect on after the opening loss, not to mention a season that has not met expectations, but perhaps the sharpest dagger of the game came courtesy of Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr.—
Peter Chawaga,
Forbes.com,
20 May 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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Each person had three glasses and five forks and knives to help them through the night.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
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On Monday, the killer, a Sikh man, was sentenced to life in prison over the knife attack last December.—
Freddie Clayton,
NBC news,
7 June 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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One of the attackers was armed with a machete, according to KTLA.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
30 May 2026
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Now Busey’s holding a club, not a machete.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
Noun
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This includes openly carrying the famous Jim Bowie knife, as well as daggers, dirks, throwing knives, stilettos, poniards, swords, machetes and spears.—
John Tufts,
USA TODAY,
30 Aug. 2017
Noun
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Police say Mendez-Marin was found with blood on his clothes and a bloody pocketknife at the scene.—
Stepheny Price , Ashley Papa , Elizabeth Pritchett,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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Police said Gregory then pulled out a pocketknife, threatened to stab the juvenile and began stealing a PlayStation console and controllers.—
Garrett Behanna,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 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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“Stiletto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiletto. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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