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a sharp pointed knife that is used as a weapon
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Recent Examples of daggers
There will be mass hallucinations, legal exorcisms, shady book launderers, and scarlet daggers.
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Willa Rubin, NPR, 1 May 2026
Many of the thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets brandished weapons including guns and daggers, while others waved Lebanese, Palestinian, Iranian and Hezbollah flags.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
That was plenty of time for SGA to reach into his bag of daggers and go right back at the Nuggets.
—Zach Harper, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
Most of the crowd is talking quietly among themselves, oblivious to Trevor Yeakley’s gaze, except for two men staring daggers right back at him.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
Sam Hauser hit three of those six daggers early in the fourth and Derrick White hit two.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
Played with underdog vulnerability by the British actor, Father Jud opens his arms to everyone and gets daggers in return.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
This shop, which features striking geometric styles, is attached to a museum that holds more than 2,500 objects—textiles, coins, daggers, and jewelry—collected by the owners’ late father.
—Gayatri Shah, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
There are the clever visual gags allowed by animation, like characters who quite literally shoot daggers at one another while locked in a glaring match; there are many jokes at the imperious, overconfident Marioneta’s expense.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Willa Rubin, NPR, 1 May 2026
Many of the thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets brandished weapons including guns and daggers, while others waved Lebanese, Palestinian, Iranian and Hezbollah flags.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
That was plenty of time for SGA to reach into his bag of daggers and go right back at the Nuggets.
—Zach Harper, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
Most of the crowd is talking quietly among themselves, oblivious to Trevor Yeakley’s gaze, except for two men staring daggers right back at him.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
Sam Hauser hit three of those six daggers early in the fourth and Derrick White hit two.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
Played with underdog vulnerability by the British actor, Father Jud opens his arms to everyone and gets daggers in return.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
This shop, which features striking geometric styles, is attached to a museum that holds more than 2,500 objects—textiles, coins, daggers, and jewelry—collected by the owners’ late father.
—Gayatri Shah, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
There are the clever visual gags allowed by animation, like characters who quite literally shoot daggers at one another while locked in a glaring match; there are many jokes at the imperious, overconfident Marioneta’s expense.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daggers
Noun
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Guard members had tried to disperse the crowd with tear gas and had advanced toward the protesters with bayonets affixed to their rifles.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
4 May 2026
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Audiences are immersed in the horrors of the war, which was fought eyeball to eyeball by landless men wielding muskets, unreliable rifles and terrifying bayonets.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
16 Nov. 2025
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Multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047 square miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with the captain’s body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
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Ordinary workshop cutters would have struggled with both the scale and material constraints, making outsourcing the most reliable option for maintaining structural integrity and dimensional precision in the build.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
17 May 2026
Noun
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Eventually, face masks and lightweight swords gave us a taste of the back-and-forth ‘combat’ that define the sport.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Nolan instructed Göransson not to use an orchestra in the score, if only to subvert expectations for a swords-and-sandals film.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
12 May 2026
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The latest iteration features intelligent control systems, controllable blades, and onboard batteries, and is meant to demonstrate its electricity generation performance in real sea conditions.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 May 2026
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When light hits grass blades leaning away from you, the grass appears light in color.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 May 2026
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“Daggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daggers. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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