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  • n  a knife with a blade that folds into the handle; suitable for carrying in the pocket

  • When the Russian had finished, John Foster Dulles blew the dust from his pocketknife, snapped it shut and shoved it into his pocket.
  • Equipped with the standard blade, nail file and screwdriver plus a USB flash drive with 128-MB memory, Swiss Army's new pocketknife is fit for a Bond, James Bond.
  • When the Russian had finished, John Foster Dulles blew the dust from his pocketknife, snapped it shut and shoved it into his pocket.
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  • Joe West in Forbes
    We didn't let him. You have to protest a rule interpretation,West said. "In Joey's behalf, he had no idea, he was told to protest the game. So he went out there with a pocketknife to a gunfight."
  • Jerry Orbach in Contactmusic.com
    According to the New York Post, Orbach writes in a letter to Cancilla, all that was left to him were "two sweaters, a pool cue, a few CDs and a pocketknife from the estate of one of television's best-known faces - a man who happened, incidentally,...
  • Mark Pryor in About - News & Issues (blog)
    A pocketknife for many people can serve as an entire toolbox, and the government really has no business taking that away from them,said Pryor in a press release.

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