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Players will use it to deflect projectiles, stun enemies, and then choose between an iron flail, an electrifying gauntlet, or a spiked mace to get up close and personal with demons.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025 -
An argument ensues between two of the officials that ends when the not-quite-dead man gets bonked on the head with a mace.—
David Plazas,
The Tennessean,
17 Apr. 2024
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In covert gatherings across California, raw goat or cow milk is mixed with cane alcohol and sugars to make pajaretes.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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But you cane experience a bit of Turner and Constable’s London by making a visit to the Royal Academy of Arts, where both artists studied, although Turner earned the Academy’s prestigious designation of Royal Academician in 1802; Constable was elected years later in 1829.—
Catherine Sabino,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Medicaid cuts especially would create a cudgel for Democratic attacks on the bill — that Republicans are giving wealthy people and companies tax cuts to cut working-class peoples' health care.—
Neil Irwin,
Axios,
29 Jan. 2025
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The best way to convince someone of your own point-of-view is generally not to bash them over the head with a cudgel, though that seems to be the preferred approach in modern political discourse and, alas, in entertainment.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
31 Oct. 2024
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Eventually, Shaquille O’Neal and Bryant took the baton with the Lakers and passed it off to LeBron James.—
Evan Webeck,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
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Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs have willingly taken the baton from Brady and the Patriots as the NFL's latest dynasty.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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There were police with truncheons and tear gas outside the ground.—
Roshane Thomas,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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It’s set 49 years in the future, a time when surveillance drones swarm the skies and shock troops keep the order, truncheons in hand.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 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
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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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Related article Holocaust becomes political bludgeon as Netanyahu returns to a country at crossroads Dekel-Chen was 35 years old when he was kidnapped while trying to defend his Nir Oz from Hamas attackers.—
Dana Karni, Ibrahim Dahman and Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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This in turn opens up the music, changing it from a bludgeon to a balm.—
Stephen Kearse,
TIME,
8 Dec. 2024
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More importantly, Vance cast himself as an extraordinary exception to his fellow Appalachians, describing ’billies as encased in a toxic amber that kept them from improving their lot and left them embittered with a country that has moved on without them.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
16 July 2024
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Hip-Hop In 2013, the indie-rap lifers billy woods and Elucid joined forces to become Armand Hammer, a clear-eyed, thrilling guerrilla duo with a penchant for cutting through nonsense.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
14 June 2024
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“Knobkerrie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knobkerrie. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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