bolo

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Noun
  • There, several members yanked Junior out of the deli and butchered him with knives and a machete.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
  • Marshall Roper still has a scar on his face from where he was slashed by a machete during the invasion of his tobacco farm in 2000.
    Ish Mafundikwa, Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Baca, who has been leading these workshops since 2011, recalled a moment from one: Everett Cox, a Vietnam War veteran who had kept away from everything military for decades, responded to a prompt of action verbs by expertly stabbing and slashing with an invisible bayonet.
    Dina Litovsky, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Prosecutors showed the jury photos of victims with scars left by objects including a bayonet, a burning cigarette and ropes.
    Colleen Slevin, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And then, to drive the dagger into Michaela even more, Simone walks down the stairs in a stunning pale blue dress that Michaela had made for her.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 22 May 2025
  • Brunson’s shot — a cold-blooded pull-up three with the season hanging in the balance — was the dagger that sent New York to its third straight second-round appearance.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • The knife was attached to a cable and measured to be seemingly less than an inch away from Cruise’s eyeball.
    Skyler Trepel, People.com, 25 May 2025
  • Two suspects reportedly ran up on the officer, threatened him with a knife and beat him, breaking his orbital bone.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • While the Swiss Army knife and similar pocketknives were banned after 9/11, in recent years, some policy changes, such as by the FAA, now allow small knives on commercial planes.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • The Swiss Army knife is a multitool pocketknife originally made by Victorinox.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • Jenner chose a cropped orange leather jacket, with a white buttoned neck and zipped sleeves, keeping the rest of her outfit simple with a super cropped white t-shirt, black leather tie-waist pants, and white stiletto pointed pumps.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 May 2025
  • The run of shoes also included loafers in a variety of styles, from embroidered to velvet and suede, as well as slingback heels, stiletto pumps with a pointed toe, and espadrille sneakers.
    FN Staff, Footwear News, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Noun
  • But both brothers died when their cutter, the U.S.S. Tampa, was torpedoed by German U-boats.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2025
  • The second reliever to follow him, Calvin Faucher, served up the 2-0 belt-high cutter on the outer third of the plate that Machado sent 408 feet to left field.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
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“Bolo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bolo. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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