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Recent Examples of pistol-whip
Until the end of 2020, for upward of a year, Joseph stopped paying her, beat her, held her at gunpoint and pistol-whipped her, the lawsuit states.
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Shirsho Dasgupta,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2026
The woman, whose name the police redacted from the affidavit, was also pistol-whipped by the shooter, who hit her in the head several times with the butt of the gun, according to the affidavit.
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Samuel O'Neal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 May 2026
The store clerk, who sustained a broken nose and two black eyes from being pistol-whipped during the robbery, later identified Talley and her wallet, which police found in a trash can near the store.
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Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
During the trial, the victim testified that Newton pointed a gun at the victim’s head and threatened her with it instead of attempting to pistol-whip her.
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City News Service,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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Shirsho Dasgupta,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2026
The woman, whose name the police redacted from the affidavit, was also pistol-whipped by the shooter, who hit her in the head several times with the butt of the gun, according to the affidavit.
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Samuel O'Neal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 May 2026
The store clerk, who sustained a broken nose and two black eyes from being pistol-whipped during the robbery, later identified Talley and her wallet, which police found in a trash can near the store.
—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
During the trial, the victim testified that Newton pointed a gun at the victim’s head and threatened her with it instead of attempting to pistol-whip her.
—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pistol-whip
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In reality, Watson wasn’t a bar fighter or famous for horsewhipping cowboys.
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Some go further, flagellating themselves or using a sword to strike their forehead to draw blood.
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In the mid-eighties, Habermas went after conservative historians who felt that Germans should no longer flagellate themselves over the Nazi past.
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There was lace everywhere and leather too.
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From Ikebana studios in Kyoto to leather workshops in Florence and tartan looms in Stirling, a growing number of trips now build entire itineraries around a single craft.
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Visuals also showed some people receiving CPR. Uncontrollable crowd Police started caning people at one gate, leading to more chaos, said Mithun Singh, a software engineer among the crowd.
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Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.
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The singer, who notably assaulted ex-girlfriend and Fenty beauty mogul Rihanna the night before the 2009 Grammy Awards, pleaded not guilty last year in the Diaw case.
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One of the suspects also assaulted and sprayed paint on a person, and when officers tried to detain the suspects several blocks away at Turk and Taylor streets, other people surrounded and obstructed the officers, police said.
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Grey has been pegged as the future of NXT and giving her the title would certainly strap a rocket to her back.
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Companies run teleoperation farms where people strap into VR rigs and exoskeletons and pilot robots through the same dull tasks over and over, logging every motion as training data.
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There, he got sucked in — to blackjack, poker, roulette.
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Kyle Kirkland, head of the California Gaming Association, told CBS News Sacramento this would outlaw blackjack and allow for stricter changes to player-dealer games.
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Each part looks radically different today than when players first started knocking balls around hundreds of years ago.
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The bench tipped, and the man put out a hand to steady himself, knocking a Hopi headpiece off a ledge.
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“Pistol-whip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pistol-whip. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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