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knives

noun as in tableware

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Too often England have arrived at an Australian gunfight armed only with knives.

From BBC

She said patients were "throwing anything they could get their hands on" at nurses and she had seen some with knives.

From BBC

The hearing at Liverpool Town Hall also heard questions raised about whether the parents of killer Axel Rudakubana had been neglectful in allowing him to buy knives prior to the killings, on 29 July 2024.

From BBC

Congressmen regularly pulled knives and pistols on one another.

There was also a significant decline in shootings of people with knives, swords and other edged weapons.

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

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