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brandishing

verb as in flaunt, swing around

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On the day before Easter in 2004, just four months into Kamala Harris’s tenure as the district attorney of San Francisco, a gang member brandishing an AK-47 rifle fatally shot a 29-year old police officer named Isaac Espinoza.

From BBC

A builder has been jailed for claiming that he had fought for the Wagner Group in Ukraine, while brandishing a knife at a Viking re-enactment event.

From BBC

A Donald Trump-supporting group is spending millions in dark money to claim the candidate would defend reproductive rights while brandishing late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name.

From Salon

Now the subject of investigations by three law enforcement agencies, Young has been accused of assault, threatening California Highway Patrol officers, brandishing a gun during a road rage incident and choking his estranged wife, according to court documents filed by prosecutors this month.

A reporter investigating clandestine timber-harvesting in a Mexican forest encounters a masked logger brandishing a chain saw.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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