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He next bisected an inch-thick rope, then set his sights on three water bottles, stacked about 6 inches apart, which he had to cut vertically.
WSJ: World Championship Cutting Competition Features Knife-Wielding Experts
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Banded with steel and coiled with thick rope at the ends, the Oak weighed four hundred and fifty-nine pounds it took five large men to carry it onstage.
NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World
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She felt around in the blocked sink with her rubber gloves, poking into the plughole with the toothbrush, pulling at the ends of the fibres caught in the trap, tugging and coaxing until she began to deliver up out of the drain a nasty mass, a thick rope of hair and soap and matted insulation, in a gulp of bad drain smell.
NEWYORKER: Friendly Fire