Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maces
Noun
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Police responded with batons, tear gas and gunfire, leaving 10 people dead and more than 50 injured.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Mar. 2026 -
Police responded with batons, tear gas, and gunfire, leaving 10 people dead and more than 50 injured.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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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
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Rehabilitative strategies that rely on multisensory processing could boost outcomes, such as using canes for mobility or auditory aids that allow the newly-sighted to simultaneously use cues from other senses while learning to see.—
Sachin Rawat,
Big Think,
2 Mar. 2026
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There were those with canes and walkers, who came of age in Jackson’s time, and those who benefited from his legacy.—
Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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When words lose their original meanings and are repurposed as verbal cudgels, the public sphere becomes a jungle of denunciation, intimidation, and even violence.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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While the conservative pushback and Trump’s cudgels are encouraging some companies to abandon formal DEI policies, analysts say an emphasis on diversity continues and is quietly evolving beneath the surface.—
William Becker,
The Hill,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Paramount’s linear cable channels already run with skeleton staffs, in most cases.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2026
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The museum typically considers donations six months out of the year, which lets staffs work on other projects the rest of the year.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The anglers had 12 rods set out in all directions around the boat.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
26 Feb. 2026
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These pins are connected to rods outside the leg, forming a rigid scaffold.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Maces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maces. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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