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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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