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- noun Plural form of
knifing .
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Examples
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The opening "knifings" are 8th grade level home movie quality.
Review: Witchouse (1999) platyjoe 2006
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The opening "knifings" are 8th grade level home movie quality.
Archive 2006-05-01 platyjoe 2006
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Computer-generated videos and interactive maps show a leafy high-rise metropolis and international trade hub emerging in Kashgar, where 21 people were killed in three days of bombings, knifings and police shootings beginning July 30.
'Silk Road' Plan for Xinjiang Makes for a Rough Tapestry Jeremy Page 2011
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It is an obvious fallacy to equate baseball bats, knives and guns due to the fact that each has the potential to create fatal harm while ignoring the likelihood of that harm, the propensity to harm more than 1 person (not many drive by knifings or innocent bystanders killed by stray baseball bats) and the general availability of similar, unrestrictable tools.
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I should have liked to know more of that dangerous thoroughfare, but "quiet knifings" is fine.
The Case of the Missing Adventure Story Allan Massie 2011
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Britain is already a pretty shitty and nasty country, what with knifings, ASBOs, CCTV cameras, national alcoholism, superlative soccer hooliganism, insularity, and the rest of it.
Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government 2010
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“We'll see,” his father said, his attention focused not on the boy but on the police blotter, with its bland recitation of arrests for local offenses ranging from traffic violations to knifings on what used to be the main street of town, five blocks from his store.
The Blue Jay Con Chapman 2011
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"Ice House Lane has always been a dark, dangerous thoroughfare—the scene of quiet knifings innumerable" begins Loring Brent's "The Master Magician" 1933.
The Case of the Missing Adventure Story Allan Massie 2011
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By 1969, machine-gun attacks, bombings and knifings were routine in Jerusalem.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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By 1969, machine-gun attacks, bombings and knifings were routine in Jerusalem.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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