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Recent Examples of mace
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.
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Richard Newby, Time, 6 Dec. 2025
Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Nov. 2025
The presence of gneiss mace heads in both places possibly honors a megalithic complex called Callanish, on the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Put a quarter teaspoon of butter inside each and sprinkle with the mace.
—Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2025
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Richard Newby, Time, 6 Dec. 2025
Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Nov. 2025
The presence of gneiss mace heads in both places possibly honors a megalithic complex called Callanish, on the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Put a quarter teaspoon of butter inside each and sprinkle with the mace.
—Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mace
Noun
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Consider his Goodworth Sofa, inspired by classic English house cane furniture and reinterpreted in a cleaner, more relaxed way.—
Hannah Coates,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
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Her cane held in her right hand, on her left foot, a cast.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
15 Feb. 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
Noun
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With equal panache, and without cutting away, the narrative focus is handed like a baton in a relay race to the arriving Mayor Dumont (Josse De Pauw) and his daughter and press attaché Marie (Violet Braeckman).—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
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According to those reports, during her arrest in December, she was beaten repeatedly with wooden sticks and batons and dragged across the ground by her hair, sustaining injuries that left open wounds on her head.—
Jomana Karadsheh,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 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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Voices on the British Right have used the scandal as a cudgel against Labour and Starmer in particular.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Feb. 2026
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Because the perch of California governor provides Democrats with an effective cudgel against the Republican administration, attacking Newsom could easily backfire in this left-leaning state.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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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With respect to Matt Chapman, Heliot Ramos and Willy Adames, who broke the Giants’ 30-homer drought, Devers is the most legitimate middle-of-the-order bat that the Giants have had in decades.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Ornelas, a Tijuana native, made his big-league debut last season, logging one hit in 16 at-bats.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 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 21 Feb. 2026.
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