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
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
Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Heavily trafficked roads are likely to include interstates 24, 40, 65 and 440, as well as major corridors like West End and Charlotte avenues, the Broadway district downtown, and Hillsboro, Lebanon and Dickerson pikes.
—Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Aug. 2025
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Noun
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
Verb
My mother, Viola Bloomer — pinochle enthusiast and pilot — drew a great breath and dove after her son, legs butterflying up into a neat pike.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Heavily trafficked roads are likely to include interstates 24, 40, 65 and 440, as well as major corridors like West End and Charlotte avenues, the Broadway district downtown, and Hillsboro, Lebanon and Dickerson pikes.
—Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Aug. 2025
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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
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That cost them a chance to truly challenge the Phillies in the division and thrust them into a dogfight for the NL’s last wild-card spot.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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Hayabusa2 achieved 10 milli-Newtons (mN) of thrust from 300–500 watts of electrical power produced by its solar arrays.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The whole composition is held in place by industrial metal clamps and perforated profile legs, a stark contrast to the more delicate cut pieces.—
Adrian Madlener,
Curbed,
13 Sep. 2025
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There are no strings, but the head of the racquet is perforated.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Sep. 2025
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The solutions, according to the Bay Area Equity Atlas report and Price’s work, have to be multi-pronged in order to really tackle the problems of housing affordability.—
Bay City News Service,
The Mercury News,
13 Aug. 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
Verb
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The all-American couple who were knifed to death while visiting an Arkansas state park were known as gentle, outdoorsy people devoted to their three children.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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The Queens man accused of knifing his wife and two-year-old daughter to death in a double murder-suicide bid stabbed his spouse more than 18 times — then began stabbing himself on a FaceTime call to a panicked nephew, officials said Friday.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
25 July 2025
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As was the case all throughout last season, the San Francisco 49ers are already riddled with injuries as their Week 2 matchup against the New Orleans Saints approaches.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The path is riddled with engineering challenges as daunting as training GPT itself.—
Roomy Khan,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Nearly 150 people reported being pricked with needles across France over the weekend, during its nationwide music festival Fête de la Musique.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
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Twelve suspects have been detained after 145 festival go-ers reported being pricked while at the Fête de la Musique, according to France 24 with AFP news.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
24 June 2025
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“Pike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pike. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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