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Noun
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In Mari’s attempt to escape, they both were sprayed with mace, leaving them equally in pain and defeated.—
Esther Zuckerman,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025 -
Investigators later found mace and a gun in her vehicle.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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An older man walking with a cane was also caught up in the scuffle and fell on his back.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Walking with a cane and recovering from a recent illness, Mr. Lev could not resist doing a little jig as stepped upon it to the cheers of friends and family.—
Dina Kraft,
Christian Science Monitor,
24 Apr. 2025
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And, in a development that has been decades in the making, civil-rights laws have been reduced to cudgels for coercing universities into subservience.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2025
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Art of the trade deal Trump enacted tariffs on steel and aluminum for most countries during his first administration and used them as a cudgel against Mexico and Canada to negotiate an update to the North American Free Trade Agreement that was more favorable to the United States.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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The baton came back to him once Paramount Plus gave a green light to The Challenge: All Stars, and OGs like himself were given a second shot at glory.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 2025
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The baton passes, rather frenetically, to other standout friends, too.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
9 Apr. 2025
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Even the basic concept of free speech has become another truncheon in the nation’s ongoing battle between tribes.—
Steven Greenhut,
Orange County Register,
2 Mar. 2025
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There were police with truncheons and tear gas outside the ground.—
Roshane Thomas,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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No shots were fired, but many were struck with nightsticks and rifle butts, and about 250 were arrested.—
Mark Jones,
The Arizona Republic,
21 Oct. 2024
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There would be fire hoses and spitting dogs and police nightsticks to contend with.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Peace in Ukraine and the Middle East is proving to be far harder to achieve than the real estate deals envisaged by the president, while the bludgeon of tariffs is raising ever more opposition among erstwhile allies.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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Mishra then abruptly juxtaposes a scene from Gaza, flush with heavy-handed language that bludgeons home his comparison.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2025
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The rapper-producer enlisted Armand Hammer’s billy woods and Elucid, Open Mike Eagle, Lupe Fiasco, Homeboy Sandman, and Hanni El Khatib for Black Hole Superette.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
2 Apr. 2025
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Soothe your anxiety over murmurs of Radiohead activity by plunging into electronic veteran Mark Pritchard’s new full-length with Thom Yorke; ramp that anxiety up again with a sinister sci-fi concept album from the unstoppable billy woods.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Knobkerrie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knobkerrie. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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