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Recent Examples of mallet
Using a large mallet, the magician hammers the automaton, played in the film by a real-life human actor, into smaller and smaller sizes.
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G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2026
To achieve this, place the breasts, one at a time, in a resealable plastic bag or between two sheets of parchment, and gently pound them with a meat mallet, rolling pin, or potato masher until evenly flattened.
—John Becker, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Jan. 2026
Some are clapperless, which means they must be struck with a mallet or drumstick and produce a sharp, solid tone.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
Lopatin used fast, percussive strikes to keep the score melodic, incorporating mallet strikes to mirror the ping-pong balls.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Dec. 2025
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G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2026
To achieve this, place the breasts, one at a time, in a resealable plastic bag or between two sheets of parchment, and gently pound them with a meat mallet, rolling pin, or potato masher until evenly flattened.
—John Becker, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Jan. 2026
Some are clapperless, which means they must be struck with a mallet or drumstick and produce a sharp, solid tone.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
Lopatin used fast, percussive strikes to keep the score melodic, incorporating mallet strikes to mirror the ping-pong balls.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mallet
Noun
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Alas, Shao Khan smashes Cole’s head with a hammer, Gallagher style, and shoves his body into a vat of acid.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
12 May 2026
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The victim said that a man, identified in documents as 43-year-old Lance Tolbert, had emerged from one of the stalls and began attacking him with a hammer.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
10 May 2026
Noun
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Or a really mad hiker with a sledgehammer.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
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Last month, two Israeli soldiers were removed from combat duty after a photo circulated online showing one of the soldiers taking what appeared to be an axe or sledgehammer to the face of a statue of Jesus Christ in the area of the Christian village of Debel, in southern Lebanon.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
1 May 2026
Noun
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If each female cucumber beetle – assuming half are female – had 110 rootworm larvae, the typical brown bat colony would prevent the production of 33 million rootworms.—
The Conversation,
Fortune,
14 May 2026
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The Quercus alba that is the tree of Orpheus (this for a production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo), but also English oak trees in Johannesburg—all of which are dying because of an infestation of shot-borer beetle.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
Noun
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While many college corners lean on lax officiating to grab and maul, Johnson stays disciplined.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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Play only stops if the ball goes out of bounds, there is an infraction or the ball is buried in a ruck or a maul — when the player with the ball is stopped, but not tackled and is joined by at least one player from his own team.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
8 Apr. 2026
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But in a matter of days, the race for control of the House — and the speaker’s gavel — was dramatically reset by back-to-back court rulings that wiped out the Democratic gains in Virginia and now threaten to erode Black representation by Democrats in the Deep South.—
Lisa Mascaro,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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Two more of his former grails will go under the gavel at Phillips New York this summer.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
12 May 2026
Noun
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The Rio Grande was twenty feet away, shining between stalks of river cane.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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Renovated in 2023, the traditional Goan style continues in guest rooms with parquet floors, cane weave chairs, antique-style wardrobes with mirrors and headboards, and furnished balconies or terraces.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 May 2026
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“Mallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mallet. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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