mace

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Recent Examples of mace 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 Nutmeg trees actually produce two spices, the nut (nutmeg) and the red aril or seed covering of the nut (mace). Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mace
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Noun
  • Soon after, images of Blair walking red carpets with a jeweled cane went viral, symbolizing a new kind of beauty and strength.
    Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Oct. 2025
  • One older woman, sparkling in a long gown, worked the carpet before collecting her cane and a Neiman’s shopping bag from a handler.
    Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This, in turn, provoked police to wade into the crowd, beating people with nightsticks.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • Up-and-comer status gifted el Khaleel’s group, Mantronix, with the glory of a four-hundred-dollar gig at the rec center, home to youth basketball games, baton-twirling competitions, after-school child care, and — on occasion — community concerts.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Iger, who had passed the CEO baton in early 2020 and wrapped his affiliation with Disney at the end of 2021, ended up being asked to return to the corner office by the board amid flagging confidence in Chapek.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Oct. 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 also wielded tariffs as a cudgel to get better trade deals with other countries and to discourage conflict between countries such as India and Pakistan.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The announcement was not explicitly framed as a cudgel against drugmakers that had failed to agree to Trump’s previous pricing demands, but a three-year exemption from the tariffs was apparently enough to get Pfizer on board.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For nearly 80 minutes, Jeezy bludgeons you with sermonic non sequiturs laid over pounding trap beats that quickly became as ubiquitous as imitations of his paper-chasing memoir fragments.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 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 Dodgers got past the Phillies without their bats ever really coming to life.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Animals that typically carry rabies are bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 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 20 Oct. 2025.

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