dagger
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A stunning jeweled dagger hilt and scabbard from Jahangir’s reign incorporate more than 2,000 diamonds, rubies and emeralds set in an intricate pattern in gold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Andy Burnham said carrying knives for religious reasons "needs to be looked at," a debate prompted by the killer of Henry Nowak carrying a kirpan, a Sikh sword or dagger.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
At a defense forum in Singapore on Saturday, Brunson was asked if his "dagger" remarks were "authorised or endorsed by the Pentagon".
From Barron's ● May 30, 2026
“You won’t be in the shadows forever,” Blake tells his intrepid team members—who, like the real-life Mr. Stanton, still maintain the cloak, if not the dagger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
He believes that there is an ointment which, if rubbed on a dagger which has caused a wound, will cure the wound.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The troublesome Queen of the Night dazzles with high notes that shoot out like daggers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Some fought with only a trident; some fought mounted on horseback; some on chariot; others on foot with helmet and short sword; some with two daggers; still others exclusively fought wild beasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Naroditsky had strong social ties, and was well respected publicly and privately, but the thin daggers of cyberbullying may have slipped past those defenses.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2025
Wealth has a way of sorting relationships when one friend's opulence brings out lustful envy in the others, the deadly sins most likely to drive daggers into the gut of any platonic bond.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2025
But when I looked back, Cliff and his friends had their heads together, and past them, Celia glared daggers at me.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Vocabulary lists containing dagger
"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 5
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