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knife

[nahyf] / naɪf /




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"I mean, he's just as easily going to be on my side as he is going to twist the knife in my back given the opportunity."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

There’s been talk of bargain hunting and fears of catching a falling knife.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

Maybe it’s knowing you won’t have to pull out another knife for three days.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

For just about everyone in the blueberry business, though, it has been a knife fight, plagued by intellectual-property theft and tanking profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

He sheathed his knife and looked round for his things.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

“I switch out my pans, and I’m careful with knives and cutting boards to avoid cross contamination,” said Charlie Granquist, chef at Slough Farm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

"I've brought over the man who repairs bicycles in Wolvercote, people who repair sewing, people who do computers, who sharpen knives."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

At The Yard, a junkyard playground on a former Coast Guard installation in New York City, children play with hammers, saws and knives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Carpets, washing machines, furniture, fridges and even knives, forks and spoons are set to have tariffs applied by Canada.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Primus's eyes fell upon the knives upon the wood of the tabletop.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

A blocks-long motorcade glides along freeways closed to traffic and knifes through city streets cleared specially for her path.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

He spent nearly $600,000 on the rocking chair John F. Kennedy used in the White House, and another $550,000 for one of Abraham Lincoln’s pocket knifes.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

Take Can a woman win the election: a sly, mean, ego-saving little canard that knifes both its subject and its verb in order to spare the real actor here.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2020

From aged three to about seven or eight, we don't let the children go near the cooker or use sharp knifes - maybe just a round-ended knife.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2013

I hear the catch in his voice, and it knifes through me.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Rickea Jackson, with her wiry strength and burst, knifed past defenders as Dearica Hamby mixed bruising post work with feather-soft finishes and Azurá Stevens — the most versatile of the bunch — filled every gap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2025

Anthony Macias knifed through the line to block a punt at the goal line, and Max Magana recovered the ball in the end zone to give Pacifica a 14-6 lead late in the first quarter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024

Al-Shifa was the same hospital where Jihad had been born five months earlier — five months of searching all day for a little food, of nearly getting knifed over a little flour.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

The quick dives of harbor porpoise, with their tiny dorsal, knifed the water.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

Headlights knifed through the darkness, all turned toward the Fullers’ porch.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

All three have brought a certain fearlessness to the court as freshmen, whether it be Howell confidently pulling the trigger from deep or Heckel knifing through the lane.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

The Hawks stutter-stepped and jabbed their way to the free throw line with deft ease, knifing the hosts from beyond the arc when they weren’t dancing inside the key.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022

He didn’t shy from knifing through traffic and taking the ball to the basket, oftentimes hitting the floor hard.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

Bolsonaro, 66, has been in the Sao Paulo hospital since Wednesday for treatment relating to an obstructed intestine following the 2018 knifing.

From Reuters ● Jul. 17, 2021

In profile, with pumping thighs and knifing arms, we cut through the shin-whipping grass.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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