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Recent Examples of mace
For about five minutes, the two kept passing each other as the man alternated between running and walking, similar to interval training, but Barker still instinctively took out her mace.
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Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 31 Mar. 2026
Eight people were injured after bear mace was released during a fight among students near an Excelsior district high school Wednesday afternoon, according to the school and the San Francisco Fire Department.
—Lucy Hodgman, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2026
Loki responds by aiming his mace to obliterate the old man, ready to snuff out his act of defiance.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026
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Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 31 Mar. 2026
Eight people were injured after bear mace was released during a fight among students near an Excelsior district high school Wednesday afternoon, according to the school and the San Francisco Fire Department.
—Lucy Hodgman, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2026
Loki responds by aiming his mace to obliterate the old man, ready to snuff out his act of defiance.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mace
Noun
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Most were put to cutting sugar cane and feeding the boiling houses, where the syrup was reduced over open fires, alongside coffee, cotton and indigo.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 May 2026
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Instead of struggling to get your cane from the overhead bin or waiting for a flight attendant to get it from a plane closet for you, consider this folding cane that can fit under the seat in front of you.—
Katie Jackson,
Travel + Leisure,
24 May 2026
Noun
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Not since the segregationist Southern states deployed dogs, fire hoses and nightsticks against civil rights activists in the early 1960s has any government entity in the U.S. wielded force against its own citizens to this extent.—
Ronald Brownstein,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
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He was also accused of stabbing the boy with a knife, hitting him with a nightstick and slamming his head into a vehicle.—
Dale Denwalt,
Oklahoman,
20 Jan. 2026
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According to the complaint, the same ICE officer had hit Scelfo twice in the leg with a baton during a physical altercation.—
Chris Boyette,
CNN Money,
1 June 2026
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To help pass the baton to new leaders more smoothly, businesses could think about giving younger leaders strategic responsibility earlier in their careers, supporting senior leaders to act in a coaching or sponsor capacity, or pushing more decisions to frontline teams and their managers.—
David Morel,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Peaceful protest marches were met with truncheons and bullets, and within two days, hundreds of people lay dead — at the hands of their own military.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Hundreds of people crowded the runway to greet Ali, pushing against a cordon of soldiers armed with truncheons.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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Linda wields her absolute power over Bradley like a cudgel, exploiting his helplessness to emotionally abuse and manipulate him.—
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 May 2026
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The attempt by right-wing activists to use the collapse of Spirit Airlines as a cudgel against the Democrats is ironic and absurd.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
6 May 2026
Noun
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Iran practices honest bludgeon work.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
4 Apr. 2026
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But Beshear hasn’t turned Trump-bashing into a 24/7 vocation, or a weight-lifting contest where the winner is the critic wielding the heaviest bludgeon.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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The popping and pinging of bats during two-hour sessions with Vasquez Duran and Sandoval feeding each other groundballs and trading turns touching second before rotating and throwing to first.—
Ethan Hanson,
Daily News,
2 June 2026
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Keep giving Bryce Eldridge five at-bats a game.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
2 June 2026
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And almost certainly cross $1 billion globally, with $2 billy still in its sights.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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Since then, billy woods has dropped Golliwog, while Elucid did the solo album Revelator.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Mace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mace. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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