variants or bastinade

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Noun
  • Under the baton of Conductor Laureate Christopher Warren-Green, the Charlotte Symphony will be joined by Sphinx Virtuosi, the chamber orchestra of the Sphinx Organization, a national non-profit organization based in Detroit.
    Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Reuters reported that police used water cannons, batons, rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As Simeon and Tupe engaged in soothing effleurage and loudly vigorous tapotement, respectively, six Maori women surrounded their tables and sang folk songs in harmony, guided by an elder in the audience with a long, gnarled cane.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Now 77, widowed, remarried and using hearing aids and a cane, Novy hasn’t seen an increase in his $1,575 monthly worker’s compensation check — nor have the other more than 300 other PTD recipients — since 2016.
    TOM KERTSCHER, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Bastinado.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bastinado. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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