pocketknife
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Using the Florida law as an example, perhaps the suspect happens to be carrying a pocketknife.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2024
Police searched Pearson, discovered a pocketknife and took her into custody.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
Ward searched through his pockets, pulling out two lighters, and told McWhorter he might have a pocketknife.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
Voepel told authorities she and Aldrich did not have any weapons aside from Aldrich’s folding pocketknife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
She poured unicorn draught over the blade of her silver pocketknife.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
He also placed his hand puppets on wall-mounted boxes and ordered his collection of daggers and pocketknives just so.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
It’s got its cheese, its banks, its mountains, its neutrality, its watches, its pocketknives and its chocolate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
My colleague developed a technique of cutting blocks with his chainsaw, and then the rest of us would sit around with our field pocketknives and split them.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 13, 2022
There are hoodies, sneakers, and off-the-wall branded goods, from pocketknives to fire extinguishers.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 28, 2016
They’d gone there with other kids and imagined they were hiding out, sharpening alder sticks with pocketknives to be used in their defense.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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