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Recent Examples of walking stick
Russian troops on walking sticks were targeted on the front line in Ukraine, a battlefield video appears to show.
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
According to prosecutors, body camera footage and his own words, Barnett entered Pelosi’s office suite with a flagpole and a stun device concealed in a walking stick.
—Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Just don’t forget to ask the staff about a brown bag lunch and pick up your walking stick, given to every guest upon arrival, before setting out into the woods.
—Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2025
His friend Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov urges him to compose, using a walking stick to tickle him awake.
—Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
According to prosecutors, body camera footage and his own words, Barnett entered Pelosi’s office suite with a flagpole and a stun device concealed in a walking stick.
—Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Just don’t forget to ask the staff about a brown bag lunch and pick up your walking stick, given to every guest upon arrival, before setting out into the woods.
—Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2025
His friend Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov urges him to compose, using a walking stick to tickle him awake.
—Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for walking stick
Noun
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These included his miter and crozier, a pouch of commemorative coins, an official papal document known as the Rogito, a rosary and his fisherman's ring.—
Bethany Braun-Silva,
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2025
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Dozens of bishops gathered outside, their white robes whipping in the wind as Archbishop of Paris Laurent Ulrich struck the closed cathedral doors with his crozier, an ornate staff, to officially mark the cathedral’s reopening.—
Joshua Berlinger,
CNN,
7 Dec. 2024
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Prater has pieces like John Wayne Gacy’s clown costume, Jeffrey Dahmer’s bloody fridge, Charles Manson’s guitar, and even more notably, the Trinity Killer’s hammer and the Bay Harbor Butcher’s blood slides.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
25 July 2025
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Early Friday morning, Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children deputies and SWAT personnel carried out a search warrant at his home and found a laptop in the trunk of Kull’s car that had been hit multiple times with a hammer, the affidavit said.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
22 July 2025
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World & Nation Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s ‘heart’ in 5 years Dec. 6, 2024 The ceremony began with Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wooden doors, tapping them three times with his fire-scarred crosier.—
Thomas Adamson and John Leicester,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Dec. 2024
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Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
29 Nov. 2024
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No matter, a crook is bound to try to convince you otherwise.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
30 July 2025
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The lanky suspect, who was caught on camera toting a backpack and carrying a paper shopping bag in the crook of his arm, attacked his first victim, a 25-year-old woman, at about 2:05 a.m. on May 17 at the border of SoHo and Greenwich Village, cops said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
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The half ended with the Free Jacks once again putting the Sabercats under pressure, trying to force their way over the tryline through a rolling maul, and twice failing to score.—
Vitas Carosella,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Minutes later, Hanover scored back-to-back tries with near identical mauls down the sideline.—
Marcello Rossetti,
Boston Herald,
14 June 2025
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Sirenko has an excellent chin, but he is getting hit with some sledgehammers and walking through it.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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This is truly a sledgehammer available to President Trump to end this war.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 July 2025
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Doing this requires knowledge of when an aircraft is about to touch down, a knowledge that beetles, mosquitoes, wasps, scorpions, butterflies, and other airport-grass dwellers have mysteriously developed.—
Fabio Morábito,
New Yorker,
24 July 2025
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Seen here is an arrangement of wisteria and iris with a small stage beetle climbing a stem.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
18 July 2025
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“Walking stick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walking%20stick. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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