hacksaw
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hacksaws
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Alan Dorfman held an Etch A Sketch over a laundry tub, picked up a hacksaw and sawed the device in half, spilling silver powder everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
They were "wearing helmets, gloves, and combat gear" and carrying "an electric knife and hacksaw," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
A skeleton crew of editors needed to take a hacksaw through the December issue of Artforum magazine.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
A simple handsaw, such as a hacksaw or coping saw, should work fine.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2021
Just before my birthday party had started, Chapter Eleven had been down in his basement laboratory, using a hacksaw on a newfangled Titleist that advertised a “liquid center.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
This is done with hacksaws and pliers in workshops.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
In order to find them, cops strapped on Hurst hydraulic rescue tools, hacksaws, axes, pry bars, sledgehammers, and hundreds of feet of rope.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2016
The hacksaws were hidden in frozen hamburger — Mr. Matt told guards it was for goulash — and transported in an envelope that also contained tubes of paint.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015
The boards were used to hide currency of the enemy country, silk maps and minute files and hacksaws.
From Forbes ● Oct. 10, 2011
Mostly things like hacksaws and an electric drill, and a circular scar where a blowtorch had been sitting.
From Highways in Hiding by George Oliver Smith
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