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Recent Examples of switchbladeOne thing leads to another, and as is common with such hedonistic reunions among longtime buddies, somebody ends up with a switchblade in their neck.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025 At a preliminary hearing held last year, San Diego police Detective Christopher Murray testified that Logan admitted to committing the homicide with a switchblade.—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025 Why did federal agents seize — and then return — $5 million worth of switchblades from a Colorado man?—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 10 Jan. 2025 Led by vocalist Christina Michelle’s hair-raising screams, Deep Sage mangles everything in its path with thick basslines and switchblade guitars until the floor is bloodied but the air, at long last, is cleansed.—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for switchblade
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.
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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.
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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.
The week before, another man high on meth armed with a machete threatened to chop the head off an employee’s three-year-old daughter.
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Jason Motlagh,
Rolling Stone,
27 Apr. 2025
So our list of regenerative agricultural practices that are suitable for the coffee sector are, for instance, to cut the arms with the scissor and not with the machete.
To top off this two-piece of dress pants and blazer with a side pocket embellishment, Hathaway added a white poplin shirt and accessorized with stiletto sandals with gold accents to match her gold evening bag and the Versace emblem.
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María Munsuri,
Glamour,
4 May 2025
The former fashion model, the first practicing Catholic to serve as first lady since Jacqueline Kennedy, attended the April 26 service in a double breasted coat dress paired with a traditional veil, gloves and black stilettos.
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
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