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Recent Examples of styletThe team explains how scientists can examine an octopus’ beak, stylets, and growth rings in the lab to determine how old the animal is.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
11 Apr. 2024 Sulfur sprays and stylet oil fungicides will also reduce the spread of powdery mildew.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Apr. 2023 The last stylet—the hypopharynx—drips mosquito saliva into the wound.—
John Sass,
Field & Stream,
11 Apr. 2023 The procedure involves using a slender surgical probe known as a stylet to guide a tube down the woman's throat, according to Dr. Hudman Hoo, a pulmonologist and the medical director of St. Anthony's Hospital's ICU ward in St. Petersburg, Florida.—
Randi Kaye and Travis Caldwell,
CNN,
11 Sep. 2021 The respiratory therapist pulled out my stylet, inflated the tip balloon through its small port at the top, attached an Ambu bag to the open mouth of the endotracheal tube and pushed in liters of oxygen.—
Tony Dajer,
Discover Magazine,
22 July 2015
The Continental Army went into the battle with a two-to-one advantage in numbers, but when most of the American militia crumbled in the face of a British bayonet charge, Pumphrey's unit was outnumbered, Wise says.
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Scott Neuman,
NPR,
23 June 2026
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.
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.
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Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 June 2026
Failing to closely examine the word being wielded like a dagger by one’s own white mother is a shame and a disappointment.
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.
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Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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.
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Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2024
The knife went through it with ease, and the mix of sweet cinnamon and savory chicken just worked perfectly together.
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Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
30 June 2026
About 15 minutes before the police found the victims, a man flagged down a Lauderhill officer to report that someone armed with a knife tried to attack him, according to police.
Ballet pink stiletto nails narrow to an airbrushed nude point, with leopard spots and silver chrome stars.
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Ariel Wodarcyk,
InStyle,
23 June 2026
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.
According to several social media posts on X, someone reportedly brandishing a machete was allegedly shot by an officer or officers.
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Kairi Lowery,
Miami Herald,
21 June 2026
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.
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.
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Elizabeth Nelson,
Pitchfork,
8 Apr. 2026
Forrest removed the cap of one and found a switchblade.