machete
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Arrabaca had two axes, a hammer, a machete, six fireworks and three fixed-blade knives, Barnacle said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Cuellar identified the man who allegedly wielded the machete as Cornell Richardson, 32.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
As the two old men told their stories, a youngster brushed past them, a machete slung over his shoulder.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
A three-month amnesty from September means anyone with a machete can place them in specially designated boxes at police stations.
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
The moon was a thin, bright machete cutting its way through patches of clouds.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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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
The team also had to leave their kayaks at a base camp they set up when it became impossible to head further upstream, hiking through the jungle using machetes for five days.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2024
Foods like frijoles and papas, clothing, plows, tools, nails, machetes, ropes, leather goods, baskets, comales for the toasting of tortillas and such, cleaning rags, buckets, and jeans jeans jeans, which have taken over.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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