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Recent Examples of mace
With 30 points of articulation, plus his signature mace, blaster, and interchangeable hands, it’s built for dynamic posing and display.
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Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
In return, agents sprayed mace, tear gas and threw smoke bombs at protesters.
—Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
One tenant claims Petrusan sprayed her with bear mace and that Petrusan’s boyfriend torched her car, though Petrusan and her boyfriend deny that and the case is still under investigation.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
In this game, the Doom Slayer feels heavier, though no less lethal, with a gamut of new weapons like the Shield Saw, iron mace, and Skull Crusher, which shoots bone fragments, naturally.
—Richard Newby, Time, 6 Dec. 2025
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Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
In return, agents sprayed mace, tear gas and threw smoke bombs at protesters.
—Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
One tenant claims Petrusan sprayed her with bear mace and that Petrusan’s boyfriend torched her car, though Petrusan and her boyfriend deny that and the case is still under investigation.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
In this game, the Doom Slayer feels heavier, though no less lethal, with a gamut of new weapons like the Shield Saw, iron mace, and Skull Crusher, which shoots bone fragments, naturally.
—Richard Newby, Time, 6 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mace
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The state regulates 132 dams across Hawaii, most of them built as part of irrigation systems for the sugar cane industry, according to a 2019 infrastructure report by the American Society of Civil Engineers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Alberto Rodríguez, 73, limped with a cane down a deserted industrial street.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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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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San Diego Symphony musicians will perform the opera’s score under the baton of conductor Louis Lohraseb, who is making his company debut.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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The video shows officers used Tasers again and struck him with batons, but Runyen in the video said both were ineffective.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
20 Mar. 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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The shooting unleashed a stream of political reaction, with Republicans quick to blame Pritzker and his fellow Democrats for championing the state’s sanctuary policies, using them as a political cudgel in expressing outrage over Gorman’s killing.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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That blast and another nearby killed 13 Americans and hundreds of Afghans; the bombings became a political cudgel and a violent symbol of the messy end of the longest war in American history.—
JC Hallman,
Oklahoma Watch,
22 Mar. 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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With the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other instruments of force as his bludgeon, Khamenei has chosen bloodshed over conciliation.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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In some footage, bats fly just overhead.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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These subjective calls decided at-bats, games, seasons and pennants — and, naturally, stirred endless debate.—
Juliette Arcodia,
NBC news,
24 Mar. 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 31 Mar. 2026.
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