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brandishing

verb as in flaunt, swing around

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

Hundreds of Californians weighed in, brandishing exclamation points like spears.

We spotted Hezbollah members, guarding an air strike location, one brandishing a Kalashnikov.

From BBC

She says that her story, of being robbed by a man brandishing a knife one evening, is common.

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

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