as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
you can take the pike all the way to the city
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Recent Examples of pike
Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2026
Like the pike, the team hasn’t lost ability.
—Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 18 May 2026
Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023
Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands.
—Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
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Noun
Fishing enthusiasts will find plenty to love, too, as Torch Lake is home to a wide variety of species, including lake trout, smallmouth bass, pike, whitefish, and yellow perch.
—Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2026
Like the pike, the team hasn’t lost ability.
—Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 18 May 2026
Verb
This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range).
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023
Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands.
—Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pike
Noun
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Police call for drivers to remain attentive, particularly during the hours of sunrise and sunset, when shifting lighting conditions affect road visibility.—
Lyanne Wang,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
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In the seventh inning of Tuesday night’s road game against the Washington Nationals, Lynch got the call out of the bullpen.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
Noun
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Young boys, some no older than five or six, showed off their marksmanship by throwing reeds like spears with perfect accuracy, and the men demonstrated their precision with bow and arrow.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Vanhanen was the playmaker on a line with Carter Bear and Julius Miettinen, a trio that was the tip of the spear for the Silvertips’ high-octane offensive attack this season.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
8 June 2026
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Krueger couldn’t be more pleased about her trajectory, and gives a hat tip to the late Ann Bishop, among the first female journalists to anchor the evening news in a major market.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
15 June 2026
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For more heat safety tips, check out this comic.—
Suzanne Nuyen,
NPR,
15 June 2026
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Of the 300,000 Chinese slaughtered by the Japanese Imperial Army during a six-week period, most were civilians who were were bayoneted, machine-gunned and burned alive.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.—
Paula Schleis,
cincinnati.com,
2 May 2020
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Thousands of Dutch soccer fans walked through the streets of Arlington on Sunday ahead of the FIFA World Cup match against Japan for the legendary Orange Fanwalk.—
Dawn White,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
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Businesses in Geneva were boarded up and hundreds of riot police were deployed in the streets over concerns about violence.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
Noun
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Nebraska's Dyson Wicker won the pole vault at an NCAA-leading 19-2 1/4, and Texas A&M senior Zaza Nnamdi took javelin at 269-10.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
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Geneva’s Baker Costar, also a junior football player, was runner-up in the boys javelin with a mark of 191 feet, 4 inches.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 May 2026
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But a few minutes later, Olise again had the ball in the Senegalese end.—
Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
17 June 2026
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There wasn’t much excitement in the building, despite the fact that the game was close until the end.—
Nick Friedell,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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Jaxson Dart’s romantic life has been thrust front and center as the New York Giants rookie simultaneously begins to make an impression on the fan base and the rest of the NFL.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
8 Dec. 2025
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On a recent episode of Nostalgia Tonight with Joe Sibilia, the lasting legacy of Vernon, who died in 1987, was thrust back into the spotlight.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
7 Dec. 2025
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“Pike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pike. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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