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Recent Examples of mace
Over 50 customers and employees were forced to evacuate after fumes from the mace reached the air conditioning vents and spread throughout the store, according to the Westminster Police Department.
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Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 2 June 2025
Australia may well have retained the mace by the time Ben Stokes’s squad arrive down under.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
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
The nanny said the suspects entered via a patio door, confronted her, and sprayed her in the face with the mace.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2025
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Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 2 June 2025
Australia may well have retained the mace by the time Ben Stokes’s squad arrive down under.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
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
The nanny said the suspects entered via a patio door, confronted her, and sprayed her in the face with the mace.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mace
Noun
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These toads are a non-native species introduced to control sugar cane pests almost a century ago.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Aug. 2025
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Raised in a small town in Puebla, Mexico, her parents grew sugar cane to support a family that struggled financially.—
Olivia Cyrus,
Sacbee.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Her eyes are big and sad, and her index finger touches the tip of the nightstick hanging from the policeman’s belt.—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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This, in turn, provoked police to wade into the crowd, beating people with nightsticks.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
10 June 2025
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The motion asked for the court to hold the city in contempt of court, saying LAPD officers hit journalists with batons and arrested them in violation of the court's previous order.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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Now, more than a decade later and after years of work together, Nathan is handing the baton to Rogers.—
Imani Cruzen,
Twin Cities,
12 Aug. 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
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But if peace in Ukraine still looks remote and Trump goes ahead with his plan, the new cudgel could hit America’s own economy – through more expensive consumer goods, lower profit margins for American companies, and possibly higher oil prices, analysts told CNN.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 2025
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Democrats have hoped to use the massive legislation package, which cuts Medicaid and other social services along with extending tax cuts, as a cudgel against Republicans in the midterms.—
Miriam Waldvogel,
The Hill,
1 Aug. 2025
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The transformation of the rattlesnake into a colonial icon coincided with the demise of the snakes themselves as settlers began to bludgeon rattlesnakes by the thousands.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Aug. 2025
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While Israel was conducting its war in Gaza with a merciless bludgeon and no conception of an ending, its tactics against Hezbollah—setting off the beeper bombs, wiping out its missile stocks and weapons depots, killing its military and political leaders—proved far better targeted.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Keith’s bat was loaded with promise, but a slow start to the season didn’t help his case for playing time.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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As of mid-August, the center is caring for 167 animals, mostly four-legged creatures, such as opossums, but also turtles and bats.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Aug. 2025
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Then the billy bedded down, pinning us behind a lone spruce tree for over an hour.—
Scott Haugen,
Outdoor Life,
13 Aug. 2025
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Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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“Mace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mace. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.
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