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Recent Examples of mallet
Why not cauterize a severed hand, add some just-for-fun cocktail rings, and then shatter the hand’s rigid bones with a hammer or mallet, which will allow the fingers to be wrapped around a colorful ceramic mug with a holly or mistletoe motif?
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Paul Rudnick, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
The best way to break up the candies (and get out any aggression) is to smash them in a zip-top bag with a rolling pin or meat mallet.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2025
In his very first entrance, Boq (Ethan Slater) is seen slinging a mallet over his shoulder — a pose that mirrors the Tin Man’s signature stance with his axe.
—People Staff, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
That final phase of gravitational wave emission is known as the ringdown phase because of its similarity to what happens to a bell when it’s struck with a mallet, clapper, or a jacquemart.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 17 Sep. 2025
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Paul Rudnick, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
The best way to break up the candies (and get out any aggression) is to smash them in a zip-top bag with a rolling pin or meat mallet.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2025
In his very first entrance, Boq (Ethan Slater) is seen slinging a mallet over his shoulder — a pose that mirrors the Tin Man’s signature stance with his axe.
—People Staff, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
That final phase of gravitational wave emission is known as the ringdown phase because of its similarity to what happens to a bell when it’s struck with a mallet, clapper, or a jacquemart.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mallet
Noun
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As the location destination for everything and anything from hammer and nails to pots and pans to children' s toys, the store was an integral fixture of the community for many decades.—
Colleen McNally Arnett,
Southern Living,
26 Feb. 2026
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One end had been sharpened to a vicious point; the other was a forked hammer claw.—
Josh Ireland,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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In each incident, burglars smashed through a glass window or front door with a sledgehammer, entered a business, and took money, cash registers, and merchandise.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Other sufferers, however, who submitted entries to the 1983 Migraine Art Competition, depicted their pain in drawings and paintings of nails, needles, axes, ice picks, arrows, bolts, jaws, chisels, shivs, guns, red-hot spears, sledgehammers, devils, and long pins.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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According to the Old Farmers Almanac, the moon’s nickname actually refers to the worm-like beetle larvae that appear from winter hideouts, such as thawing tree bark, in North America during this time of year.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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One of her favorite specimens was the rain beetle, a fuzzy scarab-like insect that can't feed as an adult, relying solely on fat stores from its larval stages.—
Christine Mai-Duc,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Down four points with 70 seconds to play, and facing fourth-and-1 on Jacksonville’s 11-yard line, Buffalo called for a Josh Allen quarterback sneak, the claw-and-maul play commonly known as the tush push.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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The half ended with the Free Jacks once again putting the Sabercats under pressure, trying to force their way over the tryline through a rolling maul, and twice failing to score.—
Vitas Carosella,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The meeting ended abruptly after Mayor Espinosa slammed the gavel in the middle of Martinez’s questions.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Feb. 2026
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After the House and Senate gavel in at noon, there will be brief floor sessions followed by adjournments.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 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
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Such is the power of cachaça, the essential and irresistible Brazilian sugar cane spirit that courses through each round of tropical cocktails passed across the bar.—
Elazar Sontag,
Washington Post,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Mallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mallet. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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