The cost-cutting knife has also hit bone.

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Harvesters pick the seaweed on beaches, cutting the plants with a short-bladed knife to allow them to regrow.

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The woman entered treatment because she had been cutting herself on the arm with a Swiss army knife.

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To demonstrate the versatility of the knife as a tool, the group designed multistage courses featuring a dozen or more cutting challenges.

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