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Noun
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After about a minute and half, Mauldin said, police began to attack the demonstrators with billy clubs.—
Maya Miller,
ProPublica,
15 May 2026 -
Mayhem erupted when the strikers were attacked with tear gas and billy clubs.—
Heller McAlpin,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 June 2025
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When words lose their original meanings and are repurposed as verbal cudgels, the public sphere becomes a jungle of denunciation, intimidation, and even violence.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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While the conservative pushback and Trump’s cudgels are encouraging some companies to abandon formal DEI policies, analysts say an emphasis on diversity continues and is quietly evolving beneath the surface.—
William Becker,
The Hill,
11 Aug. 2025
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Sourdough, multigrain, sprouted grain, pumpernickel, boules, baguettes, batons, the list goes on, but one type may rise above the pack.—
Randi Gollin,
Martha Stewart,
19 May 2026
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There used to be physical-comedy genius; there used to be simple, aspirational concepts; there used to be a passing of batons between past stars onto the next generation of them.—
Chris Feil,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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More to Explore Many of the human props—canes, top hats, desks—used in primate taxidermy became unfashionable in the first half of the nineteenth century, but there were still throwbacks.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
18 May 2026
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Before the treatment, many participants struggled with a slow, mechanical gait, and 12 used assistive devices such as walkers and canes.—
Amber Dance,
ArsTechnica,
17 May 2026
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Hang Them As Curtains Use cafe clips to hang cloth napkins from curtain rods for an easy, one-of-a-kind valance or cafe-style curtains.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
18 May 2026
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Even the wiring had to be improvised at scale, with metal rods used in place of traditional jumper wires, since no off-the-shelf equivalents exist for a project of this size.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
17 May 2026
Noun
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No shots were fired, but many were struck with nightsticks and rifle butts, and about 250 were arrested.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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There’s Xi Jinping mogging Bibi Netanyahu while deafeningly aggro phonk bludgeons away; hype montages paint Marx as history’s greatest theorist and pair Zohran Mamdani quotes with Playboi Carti Die Lit cuts.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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Out with a sore right hip flexor muscle since Thursday, Buxton ran on the warning track, worked on fielding drills with outfield coach Grady Sizemore and headed to the weight room for more activity with the strength and athletic training staffs.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
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The Long Range Committee met six times over three months and included 70 residents and 59 teachers and staffs from the district’s feeder patterns.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 May 2026
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“Knobkerries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knobkerries. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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