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Recent Examples of mallet
The precursor of the xylophone and marimba, a balafon is made by carefully cutting 21 wooden slats into different lengths, fixing them atop hallow calabashes, and striking them with mallets wound with the gum and sap of a rubber tree.
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Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
Walker showed me a video of the fingers surviving blows from a mallet.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Place a piece of plastic wrap on top and use a meat mallet to flatten.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2024
Pound using a meat mallet to about 1/2-inch thickness.
—Tricia Manzanero Stuedeman, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2024
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Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
Walker showed me a video of the fingers surviving blows from a mallet.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Place a piece of plastic wrap on top and use a meat mallet to flatten.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2024
Pound using a meat mallet to about 1/2-inch thickness.
—Tricia Manzanero Stuedeman, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mallet
Noun
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The park’s seven-acre boulder field contains piles of large diabase (an igneous rock) stones formed some 175 million years ago that sound like bells when hit with a hammer.—
Emily Matchar,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
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On June 20, 1965, Houston police found the dismembered bodies of Fred and Edwina Rogers, a local couple who investigators soon determined had been brutally murdered: Fred was beaten with a hammer, and Edwina was executed with a single gunshot to the head.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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To the surprise of his wife and son, Chappelle’s Reggie starts taking a sledgehammer to the wall to retrieve $500,000 in cash and a counterfeit passport.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
19 Jan. 2025
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The decision took a sledgehammer to Smith’s federal election subversion indictment against Trump and laid out an uncertain path for his other criminal cases.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
27 Dec. 2024
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The downy woodpecker eats the beetles that cause Dutch elm disease, as well as the emerald ash borer, which is wreaking havoc on our native ashes.—
Sheryl De Vore,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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The two beetles face off in battle, until the first manages to get enough leverage to toss his romantic rival off the stump in a deft display of insect jujitsu.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
14 Jan. 2025
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John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.—
Matt Schubert,
The Denver Post,
3 Nov. 2024
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Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.—
Ivan Carter,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2024
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Mike Johnson keeps the speaker’s gavel after Donald Trump persuades holdouts to switch their vote.—
The Editors,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2025
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House Republicans' mainstream wing is warning Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) not to repeat his predecessor's mistake of giving away the store to his right-wing detractors to retain his gavel, Axios has learned.—
Andrew Solender,
Axios,
2 Jan. 2025
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Sabrina Carpenter’s Oopsie-Daisy Sabrina Carpenter Photo by Maya Dehlin Spach/FilmMagic Stepping out in a glittery tux carrying (and promptly dropping) a sparkly dance cane, Sabrina Carpenter staged a classic Hollywood musical number as a blooper reel, complete with a full-troupe tap routine.—
Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
3 Feb. 2025
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Elevation: Prop your painful foot above the level of your heart to help reduce swelling. Use a walking aid: Consider using crutches or a cane to relieve pressure on your foot while walking.—
Sarah Richards,
Verywell Health,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Mallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mallet. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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