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Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
2 Sep. 2025 -
Officers also seized burglary tools, window punch tools, bear mace, face masks, headlamps, and handheld communication radios, according to police.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
25 Aug. 2025
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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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Children are both a key motivator and cudgel for these men.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
8 Sep. 2025
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And there are others who want to use it as a cudgel against history, against the Jewish people, against the State of Israel.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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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
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Reuters reported that police used water cannons, batons, rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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For the Civil Rights Movement, Alabama troopers lifting truncheons to beat marchers crossing Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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Even the basic concept of free speech has become another truncheon in the nation’s ongoing battle between tribes.—
Steven Greenhut,
Orange County Register,
2 Mar. 2025
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Her eyes are big and sad, and her index finger touches the tip of the nightstick hanging from the policeman’s belt.—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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This, in turn, provoked police to wade into the crowd, beating people with nightsticks.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
10 June 2025
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The transformation of the rattlesnake into a colonial icon coincided with the demise of the snakes themselves as settlers began to bludgeon rattlesnakes by the thousands.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Aug. 2025
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While Israel was conducting its war in Gaza with a merciless bludgeon and no conception of an ending, its tactics against Hezbollah—setting off the beeper bombs, wiping out its missile stocks and weapons depots, killing its military and political leaders—proved far better targeted.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Mountain goats, especially mature billies, are very predictable in their daily routines this time of year, Richard told me.—
Scott Haugen,
Outdoor Life,
13 Aug. 2025
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Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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“Knobkerrie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knobkerrie. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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