knife
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I published one of the first R.E.M. fanzines, sitting at my kitchen table in my third-floor Hoboken tenement walkup with an X-Acto knife and a glue stick.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Access to weapons varies based on capability, a pocket knife can be purchased by anyone anywhere, firearms are restricted from certain groups, and missiles are only available to militaries and are meticulously accounted for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
There’s been talk of bargain hunting and fears of catching a falling knife.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
"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," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
If Ashmodai’s knife didn’t end him, then his own heart would—inside the movie, in this halfway point between worlds, this was no place for the living.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Abdullah Albadri was carrying two knives when police officers caught him as he tried to climb over a fence into the Kensington embassy on 28 April 2025.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“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
Just remember, the bigger the knives you are juggling, the more likely you are to hurt yourself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The knives were being sharpened on Maresca after a Community Shield humbling by Mikel Arteta's Gunners in August but City have responded in superb fashion with seven straight victories in all competitions.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
“Yes, bread knives, spreading pain across my soul. Like butter.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
And then he retraced his steps across the 150-foot wide thoroughfare that knifes through the heart of the city along what once was the Red Car line of the Pacific Electric Railway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Speaking to broadcasters during a visit to Kilburn police station in north west London, Mr Sunak said there was "no reason" why such knifes should be on the streets.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023
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
I hear the catch in his voice, and it knifes through me.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
An aching knee couldn’t slow Claude, either, as he knifed through the lane with ease Tuesday, exploding for 10 first-half points before dialing it back after halftime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 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
He pointed his arms to the clear spring sky, knifed by the vapor trails of passing airplanes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2023
The setting sun seems to set the ocean ablaze, while to its left, the tossing slaver appears to be swallowed up by a knifed spray of white.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
Without a moment to lose, the ladies tucked their wings close and knifed toward the ground.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Van Lith, whose first basket came on a knifing drive for a layup with 1:43 left in the second quarter, had two jumpers blocked by Beal and three turnovers in the first half.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
Point guard Ja Morant’s knifing drives into the defense is central to that — but he has also expanded his range.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
The 66-year-old president was taken to the Sao Paulo hospital for treatment relating to an obstructed intestine following the 2018 knifing.
From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2021
He scored 22 points and had seven assists in 19 minutes before halftime, knifing through the paint and juking Washington defenders as if on skates with his repaired Achilles’ tendon.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2021
It came knifing in through the tiny peep-hole in the pocket and whooshed around her like a hurricane.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
