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Recent Examples of machete
If the Lakers renounce all their free agents except for Reaves, hacking their books with machete, the team would have Dončić, Jared Vanderbilt, Jake LaRavia, Dalton Knecht, Bronny James (partial guarantee) and Adou Theiro under contract.
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Dan Woike,
New York Times,
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.
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Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
Like Jason, Widow’s Bay’s Boogeyman sports a machete.
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Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
Authorities also determined that Gallimore used his Gurkha Kukri-style machete to slash two vehicles parked at the scene and assaulted a separate individual during the incident, the sheriff’s office alleges.
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Maveah Griffith,
Charlotte Observer,
11 June 2026
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Dan Woike,
New York Times,
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.
—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
Like Jason, Widow’s Bay’s Boogeyman sports a machete.
—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
Authorities also determined that Gallimore used his Gurkha Kukri-style machete to slash two vehicles parked at the scene and assaulted a separate individual during the incident, the sheriff’s office alleges.
—
Maveah Griffith,
Charlotte Observer,
11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machete
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The knife went through it with ease, and the mix of sweet cinnamon and savory chicken just worked perfectly together.
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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.
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Like, there’s a chick pushing a he-man out of the way and drawing a dagger to go at a T-Rex.
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After Jude Bellingham netted Saturday’s first goal in the 62nd minute — snapping an England scoring drought that had lasted for more than three halves — Bellingham set up Kane’s header, which served as the dagger.
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Police allegedly found a pocketknife on him and a gun in the vehicle.
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Brown, 34, could face the death penalty in the killing of Zarutska, who was stabbed from behind with a pocketknife while seated and looking at her phone in an unprovoked attack on August 22, 2025.
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Back then, students halted studies to pick up rifles, muskets, and bayonets.
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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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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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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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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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Forrest removed the cap of one and found a switchblade.
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The $850 style is cut higher on the foot than a low-vamp pump, with a dramatic point, slim 100mm stiletto and small JC emblem at the back.
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Brown accessorized with stiletto sandals, tiny gold hoops, and a patterned headscarf, wearing her brunette waves loose.
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And there was Fred Raskin, Gunn’s longtime cutter who worked on all the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and Gunn’s DC series Peacemaker.
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The Coast Guard cutter Eagle eased into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
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“Machete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machete. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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