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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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Prosecutors said Korosa, who was wearing a walking boot on his foot and using a cane, struck the man on his back and head with the cane, causing the man to fall down the stairs and drop the boy.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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That's when Korosa allegedly hit Soria with a cane, causing Soria and Flores to plummet down the stairs.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
2 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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Mass firings of civil servants, the dismissal of government watchdogs, the weaponization of the military against our citizens, the use of the national budget as a cudgel, and the dehumanization of immigrants.—
Stacey Abrams,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
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Video footage verified by CNN shows the moment an officer draws his baton amid a struggle with one demonstrator as other officers tussle with protesters on the ground.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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This is not just the violence of batons or bullets, but the quieter devastation inflicted by law through denial, deferral or bureaucratic neglect.—
Hansel Alejandro Aguilar,
Mercury News,
6 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,
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18 June 2025
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“Knobkerrie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knobkerrie. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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