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Recent Examples of stiletto
Robbie also added on some shredded stiletto boots.
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Hannah Malach, InStyle, 29 Jan. 2026
There’s something about gripping weights at the gym with my fresh stiletto set on that feels so powerful.
—Grace McCarty, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2026
Biles paired her custom jacket with black stiletto boots and a black bag.
—Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
To style up the Canadian tuxedo, Rih employed those familiar signature details: pointy leopard print stilettos, layered silver belts.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2026
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Hannah Malach, InStyle, 29 Jan. 2026
There’s something about gripping weights at the gym with my fresh stiletto set on that feels so powerful.
—Grace McCarty, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2026
Biles paired her custom jacket with black stiletto boots and a black bag.
—Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
To style up the Canadian tuxedo, Rih employed those familiar signature details: pointy leopard print stilettos, layered silver belts.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stiletto
Noun
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Maye suffered six sacks and committed three turnovers, including a fourth-quarter interception that linebacker Uchenna Nwosu returned 44 yards for a dagger touchdown.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Singh, who would be our local guide, always wore the five traits of a pious Sikh man — uncut hair (symbolizing strength and holiness and topped by the identifying turban), a steel bracelet, wooden comb, sheathed dagger and a baggy undergarment dating back to the Sikhs’ warrior days on horses.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The organization Knife Rights and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in 2023 in San Diego federal court challenging California’s switchblade prohibition.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
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Davis stabbed the father eight times with a switchblade in the stomach, face, neck and arm, and the victim’s wife called 911, prosecutors said.—
Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Becoming a master of quadruple jumps that no one else can land, rising with all the ease of a young Michael Jordan—before landing on a pair of butcher knives, on ice.—
Stephanie Bai,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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The salesperson in the custom knife shop with a $1,200 pizza cutter on offer — albeit the most beautiful pizza cutter I, personally, have ever seen — said that more customers had started to trickle in now that the fervor on Main Street had died down and the roads were clearer.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Feb. 2026
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Forty-five degree angle with your bayonet, go through the soil, find, find, find, dink dink.—
Tracy Smith,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2026
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The law prohibits the sale and distribution of screw-base and bayonet-base compact fluorescent lamps.—
Center Square,
The Washington Examiner,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The suspect continued to walk toward an officer with the machete, and the officer fired his weapon.—
Kyle Werner,
Des Moines Register,
4 Feb. 2026
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Security cameras showed the suspect swinging the machete and breaking the glass front door.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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This includes openly carrying the famous Jim Bowie knife, as well as daggers, dirks, throwing knives, stilettos, poniards, swords, machetes and spears.—
John Tufts,
USA TODAY,
30 Aug. 2017
Noun
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Police said Gregory then pulled out a pocketknife, threatened to stab the juvenile and began stealing a PlayStation console and controllers.—
Garrett Behanna,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2026
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Investigators said Moore approached Loncharich in a store aisle and stabbed her in the back with a pocketknife.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
1 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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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.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2024
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“Stiletto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiletto. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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