pocketknife
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The 9th Circuit panel found that the state had failed to prove they were either of those things, with Bea writing that they are “simply a pocketknife with an extra rotating handle.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
Ward searched through his pockets, pulling out two lighters, and told McWhorter he might have a pocketknife.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
Diatomite is really strange stuff—you can cut it with a pocketknife or a spade or a chainsaw.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 13, 2022
He had no criminal record and was carrying only a two-inch pocketknife at Twin Peaks.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
He hands me his pocketknife, and I carefully slice it open.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
It’s got its cheese, its banks, its mountains, its neutrality, its watches, its pocketknives and its chocolate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
My colleague developed a technique of cutting blocks with his chainsaw, and then the rest of us would sit around with our field pocketknives and split them.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 13, 2022
There are hoodies, sneakers, and off-the-wall branded goods, from pocketknives to fire extinguishers.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 28, 2016
Loop Fans may recall that the TSA formally backed off last week from its plan to allow pocketknives on airplanes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2013
But they also talked about games at recess, and friends who shared candy at lunchtime or loaned them pocketknives to carve with.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
