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Recent Examples of gavel
The speaker issued a warning for order, banging the gavel.
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Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
Once Gottfried is sworn in, the two parties will have even strength on most committees, with co-chairs who will take turns holding the gavel, except for an oversight committee that Republicans will control to investigate fraud in government programs.
—Steve Karnowski, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Even without access to their own future picks, the Bucks are in such a bad spot that the only logical move is to bang the gavel on a Giannis bidding war and rebuild with the spoils.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
The trend could complicate the Democrats’ path to winning back control of the House in the 2026 midterms, when party leaders are optimistic about their chances of seizing the Speaker’s gavel after four years in the minority wilderness.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 23 Mar. 2025
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Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
Once Gottfried is sworn in, the two parties will have even strength on most committees, with co-chairs who will take turns holding the gavel, except for an oversight committee that Republicans will control to investigate fraud in government programs.
—Steve Karnowski, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Even without access to their own future picks, the Bucks are in such a bad spot that the only logical move is to bang the gavel on a Giannis bidding war and rebuild with the spoils.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
The trend could complicate the Democrats’ path to winning back control of the House in the 2026 midterms, when party leaders are optimistic about their chances of seizing the Speaker’s gavel after four years in the minority wilderness.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 23 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gavel
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For Leader, this hammers home the unreality of a studio without an intense marketing machine around it.—
Ryan Gaur,
IndieWire,
10 June 2025
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After holding a new round of hearings that unfolded over a nine-month period straddling last year and this year, Gonzalez-Rogers brought down another legal hammer on Apple.—
Michael Liedtke,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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From butcher knives to mallets to plates, Eve and her assailant use just about everything but the kitchen sink against one another, including the kitchen cooler.—
Michileen Martin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 May 2025
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The Penzance Musical, an exquisitely funny, meticulously concocted theatrical pavlova—the 1879 operetta The Pirates of Penzance by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan—has been whacked with a mallet.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
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New York’s seven GOP representatives turned their backs on their constituents by passing a budget that guts Medicaid and takes a sledgehammer to our health care system.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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Trump wanted to scale back the size of government and gave Musk a sledgehammer and full access to just about every corner of it.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 June 2025
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Carrying a wooden cane, Camus led Yarvin through the small town of Plieux.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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The former sovereign sometimes walks with a cane for support and was hospitalized after falling at her Fredensborg Castle home in September 2024.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
8 May 2025
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When funding for these circulars came to an end, Fred picked up the eclipse baton and with the help of Canadian meteorologist Jay Anderson, produced their own eclipse circulars, funded under the auspices of NASA.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
3 June 2025
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YoungBoy takes the baton and aims at his detractors.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
21 May 2025
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“Gavel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gavel. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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