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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 -
Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).—
Ed Masley,
The Arizona Republic,
1 Dec. 2024
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High fructose corn syrup usage in the US has declined over the last two decades while table sugar, made from cane or beet, has been on the rise.—
Mark Dent,
thehustle.co,
10 Jan. 2025
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Fourth, crossing canes can become intertwined and obstruct quality blooms and new canes.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Jan. 2025
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Seeing how insurance beneficiaries and policyholders who are overwhelmingly from the working and middle classes are at a major disadvantage, attorney Anthony M. Lopez decided to take up the cudgels for them, founding the specialist law firm Your Insurance Attorney.—
Kyle J. Russell,
USA TODAY,
16 Dec. 2024
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Some in Trump’s orbit have advocated wielding U.S. military aid to Ukraine as a cudgel against whichever party proves intransigent in the talks: either by threatening to ramp up assistance to Kyiv to put the screws on Russia or to cut it off if Ukraine refuses to make the necessary compromises.—
Samuel Charap,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Dec. 2024
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In videos verified by CNN, dozens of protesters are seen confronting a wall of riot police outside the Pucheng Vocational Technical School, with some hurling batons and other objects towards the officers.—
Shawn Deng,
CNN,
11 Jan. 2025
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Zhang’s baton matched the second act’s edge-of-your-seat melodrama.—
Joshua Barone,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 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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Each side must field somewhere between two and eleven players, some of whom shall carry flattened truncheons, while others toss about leather balls.—
Simon Webster,
The New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2023
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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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Some officers wielded nightsticks to force demonstrators out of the parks.—
Michael Loria,
USA TODAY,
27 Apr. 2024
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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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Conservatives have had it in for Chevron deference for a long time; given their current majority on the court, the doctrine’s death has been a foregone conclusion, awaiting only the appearance of a suitable case to use as a bludgeon.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 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 28 Jan. 2025.
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