sledge

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Verb
  • Packages of cucumbers—that had been either chopped, sliced, or speared—had initially been recalled last month amid fears they may be contaminated with the potentially deadly food poising bug.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • After the match, Rhodes and Owens brawled on a production crate, leading to Rhodes spearing Owens through a table.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Ground the color pairing with natural elements such as a wood dining table and caned chairs, then create dramatic contrast with a black piece.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Prune the second-year, woody canes off summer-bearing raspberries once a year after the plants fruit.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2024
Verb
  • Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures.
    Timothy Ryback, TIME, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Before long, fairs had such attractions as cudgelling bouts, bearbaiting, and something called gouging.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
Verb
  • Linda lashes out at everyone, a bottomless pit of emotional need, and takes refuge in drugs and alcohol.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Trump has lashed out at the fees U.S. shipping pays to use the canal but seems most animated by the involvement of a Chinese company in its operations.
    Simon Lewis and Matt Spetalnick, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • There were also the Williams signature highly creative steamer trunks rolled down the luxury runway, recalling logistics workers at any of the e-comm distribution centers in the US whose owners are usually members of a billionaire's boys club themselves.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Ali sidestepped it, and Foreman blundered, swapping positions with his challenger, as Ali clubbed him with a head-dazing right blow.
    Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The folks in attendance Monday at the century-old building on St. Paul’s Payne Avenue included Mayor Melvin Carter and Gov. Tim Walz, who took turns sledgehammering holes in the drywall to kick off a $10 million, top-to-bottom reinvention.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The move means the 7-foot Kiwi will be under contract for the next three seasons and signals that at a time when the game is becoming increasingly perimeter-oriented, the Pelicans will try to sledgehammer their way to wins.
    Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 24 Nov. 2020
Verb
  • That’s when Padilla lunged and stabbed the man that held the door open, police said.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
  • What starts as a romp in the woods, though, soon turns into a horror show when Josh’s friend Sergey (Friend) tries to force himself on Iris, who stabs him to death.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Cookie whipped them and forced them to walk on burning pavement.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Pitchers and catchers report to the Padres’ spring training complex on Wednesday, leaving the team six weeks to whip the roster in shape for opening day.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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