switch knife

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for switch knife
Noun
  • 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
  • There’s a reason bowie knives were developed to be fighting knives.
    Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
Noun
  • Brunson scored eight points in the game’s final 5:04, including a 3-pointer with 2:25 remaining that gave the Knicks a 116-104 lead and served as the dagger.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025
  • More symbolic may be the dagger tattoo on his left forearm.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Prosecutors showed the jury photos of victims with scars left by things including a bayonet, a burning cigarette and ropes.
    Colleen Slevin, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Back on Lexington Common, British troops are sweeping forward, bayonets fixed.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The man didn’t threaten anyone with the knife and soon left.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 13 May 2025
  • Apple is not legally required to re-admit Fortnite, but the questions now are whether Apple is going to nitpick some specific thing to deny the app that caused all this, or whether Fortnite has somehow pushed the bounds of the results of the case to twist the knife even further.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • This vignette of administrative chaos exacerbated by mass layoffs will be familiar to any federal employee or contractor whose agency has been felled of late by the whimsical machete of DOGE.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
  • The guard approached, with his hand apparently ready to draw his firearm, which prompted Scott to run off, ditching the machete in his escape.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • The Swiss Army knife is a multitool pocketknife originally made by Victorinox.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • The pocketknife was recovered in the woods with the assistance of a Bristol police dog, Farmington police said.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Switch knife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/switch%20knife. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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