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For about five minutes, the two kept passing each other as the man alternated between running and walking, similar to interval training, but Barker still instinctively took out her mace.
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Caroline Neal,
Louisville Courier Journal,
31 Mar. 2026
Eight people were injured after bear mace was released during a fight among students near an Excelsior district high school Wednesday afternoon, according to the school and the San Francisco Fire Department.
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Lucy Hodgman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Mar. 2026
Loki responds by aiming his mace to obliterate the old man, ready to snuff out his act of defiance.
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Literary Hub,
27 Feb. 2026
Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
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Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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Caroline Neal,
Louisville Courier Journal,
31 Mar. 2026
Eight people were injured after bear mace was released during a fight among students near an Excelsior district high school Wednesday afternoon, according to the school and the San Francisco Fire Department.
—
Lucy Hodgman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Mar. 2026
Loki responds by aiming his mace to obliterate the old man, ready to snuff out his act of defiance.
—
Literary Hub,
27 Feb. 2026
Weapons of any kind (no knives or mace/pepper spray of any size).
—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mace
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Jung, who is going into his senior year of high school, said SmartBlink can detect pedestrians using wheelchairs, crutches or canes, too.
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An individual bush can grow up to 15 feet high and 40 feet long, with thick stems, also known as canes, marked by sharp, hooked thorns.
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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.
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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.
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Alite provided loans at exorbitant rates before threatening violence to collect on them, authorities said, citing the discovery in his home of metal knuckles, an expandable baton, six baseball bats and about two dozen knives, including switchblades.
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Officers can use voice commands, and if those don’t work options include pepper spray, a baton, a TASER or fire extinguisher, though some are more difficult to use on a fast-moving animal, the directive says.
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Hundreds of people crowded the runway to greet Ali, pushing against a cordon of soldiers armed with truncheons.
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For the Civil Rights Movement, Alabama troopers lifting truncheons to beat marchers crossing Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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The measure’s main backer is the SEIU United Health Workers West, whose president, Dave Regan, has a long track record of using ballot measures as a cudgel to win concessions from labor adversaries.
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Judges, attorneys, guardians and other court professionals have repeatedly used custody as a cudgel, according to some family court attorneys and advocates, punishing parents for their conduct by limiting their access to their children.
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Iran practices honest bludgeon work.
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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.
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Brandon Marsh did that in the next at-bat with a two-run homer.
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Arraez finished the at-bat and flied out to left field, jogging gingerly down the first-base line.
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Also called billy button, sun ball, golf beauty, drumstick, and woolly head, craspedia stands out for its globe-like shape that sits atop a bare stem.
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And almost certainly cross $1 billion globally, with $2 billy still in its sights.
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“Mace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mace. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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