yataghan

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Noun
  • The final dagger came from forward Alyssa Thompson in front of a crowd of 18,504 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
    Meg Linehan, New York Times, 26 June 2025
  • Those are the choices facing America: Cutting benefits is a dagger pointed directly at the neediest Americans.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Each foot soldier carried a ten-pound musket, a sixteen-inch bayonet, a tin canteen, a linen haversack, and his own blanket—a battlefield luxury, since in peacetime five men typically shared two blankets.
    / CBS News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
  • 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
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 7 Jul. 2025.

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