as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
you can take the pike all the way to the city
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Recent Examples of pike
Kasey Nelson, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The weather was bad enough that MassDOT dropped the speed limit on the pike and forbid tandem trucks from the road.
—Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023
Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands.
—Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
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Noun
Routines to Watch: Vault: Makenzie Wilson (Kentucky) earned two perfect 10s in 2024 with her front handspring pike half vault.
—Kasey Nelson, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The weather was bad enough that MassDOT dropped the speed limit on the pike and forbid tandem trucks from the road.
—Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
Verb
This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range).
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023
Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands.
—Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pike
Verb
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There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.—
Paula Schleis,
cincinnati.com,
2 May 2020
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And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.—
Erik Heinrich,
BostonGlobe.com,
16 May 2018
Verb
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Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.—
CNN,
CNN,
2 Nov. 2022
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Visitors can view a variety of media including textiles—such as Navajo artist D.Y. Begay’s Southwest landscape painting on wool—beadwork, sculpture, photography, film and even clothing attire such as beaded and quilled Louboutin shoes.—
Lily Katzman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2020
Verb
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Nylander can be thrust into different lines, sometimes out of the top six, on a moment’s notice.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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The New York Times: With the Signal snafu, Waltz is thrust into the spotlight.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
26 Mar. 2025
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For paving, Liu used bricks perforated with holes and filled with soil, allowing grass to sprout through the middle.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
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The triangular perforated wall with its clever use of perspective serves as a seamless connection between the store’s interior and exterior by integrating the outdoor landscape with the in-store display.—
WWD,
WWD,
28 Feb. 2025
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The chat reportedly suggested the members had strong ties to the police force, which then brought police corruption into the multi-pronged scandal.—
Caitlin Kelley,
Billboard,
24 Mar. 2019
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Apparently, there's now a new twist on the classic shape, looking a little more modern with an oval center stone and spiky pronged diamonds surrounding it.—
Katherine J. Igoe,
Marie Claire,
2 Aug. 2019
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Solis, using her quickness and tight handle, knifed her way through the Bulldogs’ defense and broke into paint repeatedly.—
Devin Bradshaw,
The Mercury News,
5 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article A 45-year-old woman was knifed to death during a bloody clash with her son in her Brooklyn home — despite the help of a good Samaritan who tried to stop the violence, police sources and neighbors said Saturday.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
25 Jan. 2025
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The adoption process was also riddled with problems – including inadequate screening of adoptive parents, neglect from guardians caring for the children, and cases where foreign adoptive parents were pressured to pay to be given a child.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2025
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The grandstands were rendered dangerous, riddled with rust and corrugated metal, before five-plus years of renovative work and millions of dollars intervened.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Mar. 2025
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That was especially ripe to be pricked at a moment that is seeing the swearing-in of a new administration that has not exactly placed the protection of women’s rights or LGBTQ+ freedoms at the forefront of its agenda.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
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For now at least, these people are stuck with pricking their fingers multiple times a day to get glucose measurements from their blood.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Nov. 2018
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“Pike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pike. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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