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If I'm reading that correctly, it means that someone who may or may not be Mario Cipollini uses olive oil to style his hair with a knife-shaped comb, wrestles scantily-clad ladies in it, and pours it all over his pasta, but does not use it for "male enhancement."
Enhanced Performance: Oiling the Squeaky Wheel BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The Andorian stood facing him, the metallic blue gleam of a small, knife-shaped stinger gun clutched in one hand.
MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000
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The Andorian stood facing him, the metallic blue gleam of a small, knife-shaped stinger gun clutched in one hand.
MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000
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The Andorian stood facing him, the metallic blue gleam of a small, knife-shaped stinger gun clutched in one hand.
MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000
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I took a score of dives to scout out Ydris, from the empty and arid poles where ice winds whistled across sea ice sculpted into knife-shaped dunes to the tropical jungles where each instant held battles between beasts so savage that even the Ydrisians avoided their own equator -- except for the outcasts.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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The warrior loomed over him; in his right hand there was a knife-shaped object that glittered blackly in the moonlight.
Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989
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This may have its sides parallel or tapering, to make a knife-shaped file.
Practical Mechanics for Boys J. S. Zerbe
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Small knife-shaped stick for pounding down the woof of belts.
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They argued that the sample found on the knife blade could not be attributed to Miss Kercher with any certainty, and pointed out that the weapon did not match a bloody, knife-shaped smear on Miss Kercher's bedclothes, nor did it match two of the three wounds to her neck.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Nick Squires in Perugia 2011
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The alleged murder weapon, for instance, a knife found in the kitchen of Amanda's boyfriend, did not match a knife-shaped bloodstain on Kercher's bed, and the sample of the two women's DNA on it was so small that some say most judges would not consider it admissible evidence.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News By VASHON-MAURY ISLAND BEACHCOMBER 2010
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