mace

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Recent Examples of mace Footage obtained by Fox News and photos by the Associated Press show two protesters, including a woman standing directly in front of a federal agent, being sprayed with what appeared to be mace outside the Portland ICE building. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 Mighty Bhima, strongest of the Pandava brothers, defeats Duryodhana by breaking his thighs and crushing his genitals with his mace, literally hitting him below the belt. Seamus Sullivan september 29, Literary Hub, 29 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 But on the ground for Grenada’s carnival – dubbed Spicemas for the island’s trove of nutmeg, mace, cloves, and cinnamon – that legacy of rebellion is inescapable. Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mace
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Noun
  • To help your plants establish, make sure to get potted raspberries in the ground at least 4 to 6 weeks before frost is expected, or choose bare root canes, which are dormant and can be planted even later in the season, as long as the ground isn't frozen.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2025
  • While many families serve yeast rolls or buttery garlic bread alongside their main courses, the dinners eaten around the oak table of my childhood featured pillowy soft biscuits with a side of cane syrup.
    Ivy Odom, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • That performance included baton twirlers and horses galloping through the crowd.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 8 Nov. 2025
  • People have decided who is going to be the next person, and then just passing down the baton.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Trump has wielded them like a cudgel to get better trade deals with other countries.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Erin Simkin—Netflix Advertisement Likability can be a cudgel against female characters, and, thanks to Girls, Konner is used to dealing with questions on that subject.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The next unethical president on the left will happily use whatever government bludgeon this administration fashions to pummel the right.
    Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The demonstrators, some wielding bats, appeared to be asserting the jurisdiction of the Edo people’s ceremonial king, Oba Ewuare II, over the region’s cultural patrimony.
    News Desk, Artforum, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The ghost bat is an Australian native mammal known for teaming together in a pack to detect prey and hunt.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Since then, billy woods has dropped Golliwog, while Elucid did the solo album Revelator.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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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“Mace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mace. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

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