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.
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.
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.
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.
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