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Noun
Others assaulted Capitol police with pepper spray, bludgeons, and other makeshift weapons. Allison Novelo, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024 The saga is the latest example of Lake using audio and video recordings as a political bludgeon. Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2024
Verb
This is, perhaps, most infamously evident in the case of Vanessa Guillén, the 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier who was bludgeoned to death by another soldier, Aaron David Robinson, on April 22, 2020. Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2024 The same was true when two weeks prior Americans were bludgeoned by Israeli settlers. Daniel Santiago, TIME, 13 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bludgeon 

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“Bludgeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bludgeon. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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