as in cane
a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment
the detainee claimed that the police had beat him with their batons even after he had been shackled
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Recent Examples of baton
This is not just the violence of batons or bullets, but the quieter devastation inflicted by law through denial, deferral or bureaucratic neglect.
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Hansel Alejandro Aguilar, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
While music can play on forever under the baton of a fresh conductor and dance can be handed down via choreographic records from one generation to the next, last night’s theatrical triumph can never be fully replicated.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The vision of Buckley as its leader that emerges from his narrative is one not of a commanding general but of a baton twirler at the head of a long procession.
—Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Around the time Loftus took the baton, a notice of extreme heat emergency was posted for Portland and the surrounding county.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
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Hansel Alejandro Aguilar, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
While music can play on forever under the baton of a fresh conductor and dance can be handed down via choreographic records from one generation to the next, last night’s theatrical triumph can never be fully replicated.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The vision of Buckley as its leader that emerges from his narrative is one not of a commanding general but of a baton twirler at the head of a long procession.
—Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Around the time Loftus took the baton, a notice of extreme heat emergency was posted for Portland and the surrounding county.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baton
cane
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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
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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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“Baton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baton. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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