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machete

[muh-shet-ee, -chet-ee] / məˈʃɛt i, -ˈtʃɛt i /
NOUN
sickle
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NOUN
weapon
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Arrabaca had two axes, a hammer, a machete, six fireworks and three fixed-blade knives, Barnacle said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Cuellar identified the man who allegedly wielded the machete as Cornell Richardson, 32.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

In his field, just a stone's throw from his house, Kone still works only with a machete and wears open-toed shoes.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

"It was more like Lord of the Flies or Borstal," she said, adding that every girl there had a machete, in order to cut the grass.

From BBC Jan. 24, 2026

Matthew drops his machete to the ground and puts an arm across his eyes as he snuffles and yowls and moans.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

Besides pulling off dozens of ticks, Bardwell recalled the main challenge being “wait-a-minute vines,” made tougher by cheap, ineffective machetes.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 23, 2026

In Cuba, residents of the country's second-largest city Santiago de Cuba worked with machetes to clear streets buried in debris.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2025

He asked: "Did AR have any remote reason - as far as you can really tell - or his family to be ordering machetes?"

From BBC Sep. 22, 2025

One expert questioned whether the two machetes we bought met the definition of having a "sharp pointed end" - a definition that hasn’t been considered yet in court.

From BBC Nov. 15, 2024

Sometimes when we swung the machetes and axes, their weight would send us flying into the bushes, where we would lie for a bit and rub our aching shoulders.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah




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