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Protests both online and at last week’s Paramount back-lot premiere for Scream 7 failed to stab an ice pick through the heart of the long-running horror franchise.—Chris Lee, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2026 Other sufferers, however, who submitted entries to the 1983 Migraine Art Competition, depicted their pain in drawings and paintings of nails, needles, axes, ice picks, arrows, bolts, jaws, chisels, shivs, guns, red-hot spears, sledgehammers, devils, and long pins.—Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026 Trotsky hurled items from the desk at Mercader before wresting the ice pick from his grip.—Josh Ireland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 Objects—an old writing desk, a painting, an ice pick—become repositories for intimacies.—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ice pick