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Recent Examples of mace
Investigators later found mace and a gun in her vehicle.
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Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
Players will use it to deflect projectiles, stun enemies, and then choose between an iron flail, an electrifying gauntlet, or a spiked mace to get up close and personal with demons.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
The basalt tools include mace-type objects and anvils, which would have been utilized to crack and crush plant foods.
—Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2024
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Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
Players will use it to deflect projectiles, stun enemies, and then choose between an iron flail, an electrifying gauntlet, or a spiked mace to get up close and personal with demons.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
The basalt tools include mace-type objects and anvils, which would have been utilized to crack and crush plant foods.
—Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mace
Noun
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The interiors were inspired by its serene setting in the Serengeti and showcase African art, a neutral color palette, and natural textures, such as linen, clay, grass, and cane.—
Regan Stephens,
Travel + Leisure,
23 June 2025
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Black spot spores can overwinter on rose canes and leaves.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2025
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This, in turn, provoked police to wade into the crowd, beating people with nightsticks.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
10 June 2025
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Also called a nightstick, the baton is essentially a club with a handle, often used for crowd control.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN Money,
10 June 2025
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Rena Frye, their mother, rushed to the defense of her sons; the police pinned her to a patrol vehicle, and the officers took a baton to Marquette.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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Hastings was in second place of the finale, the 4×400 meter relay, when Strauss got the baton for the final leg.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
13 June 2025
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Even the basic concept of free speech has become another truncheon in the nation’s ongoing battle between tribes.—
Steven Greenhut,
Orange County Register,
2 Mar. 2025
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There were police with truncheons and tear gas outside the ground.—
Roshane Thomas,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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But the vote every few years becomes a cudgel against members of the governing party because approval contributes to the appearance of unbridled spending.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
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Those kinds of broadsides could be a particularly powerful cudgel against Trump just five months into his second term.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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When the Republican Charles Sumner was struck down by a Southerner on the Senate floor, Raymond’s paper called for armed resistance by pistol, bludgeon, and bowie knife, if necessary.—
Matthew Karp,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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Todd Golden could cycle body after body in the paint to bludgeon opponents and wear them down over 40 minutes, and Condon and Rueben Chinyelu, the Gators’ two starters, were crucial parts of that rotation.—
Jim Root,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Boyd made a sensational catch of a hard liner off the bat of J.P. Crawford to end the fifth, but his left shoulder was bruised on the play and manager Craig Counsell removed him after the inning.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
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José Ramírez #11 of the Cleveland Guardians bats against the San Francisco Giants in the top of the fifth inning of a major league baseball game at Oracle Park...—
Hunter Mulholland,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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The rapper-producer enlisted Armand Hammer’s billy woods and Elucid, Open Mike Eagle, Lupe Fiasco, Homeboy Sandman, and Hanni El Khatib for Black Hole Superette.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
2 Apr. 2025
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Soothe your anxiety over murmurs of Radiohead activity by plunging into electronic veteran Mark Pritchard’s new full-length with Thom Yorke; ramp that anxiety up again with a sinister sci-fi concept album from the unstoppable billy woods.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Mace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mace. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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