yataghan

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Noun
  • Technology has been the key to US prosperity since World War II, and Musk’s bitter split with the White House is symbolic of the dagger being driven through the industry’s future.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 6 June 2025
  • The failure to produce a bidding contest represented another dagger for an airline with a history of financial troubles.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Baca, who has been leading these workshops since 2011, recalled a moment from one: Everett Cox, a Vietnam War veteran who had kept away from everything military for decades, responded to a prompt of action verbs by expertly stabbing and slashing with an invisible bayonet.
    Dina Litovsky, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Prosecutors showed the jury photos of victims with scars left by objects including a bayonet, a burning cigarette and ropes.
    Colleen Slevin, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Miley Cyrus marked her arrival in Paris on Tuesday with a subtle nod to the city’s fashion history, wearing an archival dress from late designer Patrick Kelly paired with classic black stilettos.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 18 June 2025
  • Now the room, decorated with giant lamps resembling drooping wildflowers, is a temple to a different kind of currency: designer stilettos (from the likes of Manolo Blahnik and Jacquemus).
    Marina Harss, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Noun
  • Icke also occasionally cues up some Bob Dylan songs, chosen for their on-the-bodkin lyrics.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 30 June 2022
  • Punishment for cursing or disparaging a clergyman was having a bodkin — a large needle — driven through the tongue.
    Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
Noun
  • Misdemeanor carry concealed dirk or dagger, 3000 block Ocean Front Walk, 1:18 p.m.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Carry concealed dirk or dagger – 400 block of Santa Fe Drive, 11:12 a.m. DUI – 0 block of La Costa Avenue, 3:32 a.m.
    Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Besides allowing for rapid, efficient construction, a modular approach turns data centers into a Swiss Army knife for ever-changing customer needs.
    Andrew Schaap, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • All four had been stabbed multiple times with a large knife.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Thugs hired to kill somehow bring machetes instead of guns to the fight.
    Anupama Chopra, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • Kyle Ashman was reportedly sent home after ITV found out he was arrested on suspicion of a machete attack in February.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 9 June 2025
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“Yataghan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yataghan. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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