machete
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Cuellar identified the man who allegedly wielded the machete as Cornell Richardson, 32.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
In his field, just a stone's throw from his house, Kone still works only with a machete and wears open-toed shoes.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
"It was more like Lord of the Flies or Borstal," she said, adding that every girl there had a machete, in order to cut the grass.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Ogou Je Wouj is a manifestation of the god of war and is believed to wield a machete.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
Jack built a three-sided shed for the tools, with a hook for the bananas and his big machete to cut them with.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
Besides pulling off dozens of ticks, Bardwell recalled the main challenge being “wait-a-minute vines,” made tougher by cheap, ineffective machetes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
In Cuba, residents of the country's second-largest city Santiago de Cuba worked with machetes to clear streets buried in debris.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
He said the business, based in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, had probably sold more than 100 machetes in 2023, but no longer stocked them.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
He asked: "Did AR have any remote reason - as far as you can really tell - or his family to be ordering machetes?"
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
Sometimes when we swung the machetes and axes, their weight would send us flying into the bushes, where we would lie for a bit and rub our aching shoulders.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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