sledge

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Verb
  • Reed and Breakker picked up a win after Breakker speared Jey and Jimmy through a table, and Reed hit a tsunami on Jey for the pinfall.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Aztecs speared and ate them, and Catholic monks indulged on the aquatic delicacies on days they weren’t allowed to eat red meat.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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.
    USA Today, USA Today, 5 June 2025
  • Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.
    Barbara A. Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
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
  • The penalty was lashed and ludicrous, the timing important with Newcastle leading 1-0 but hardly imperious.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Conservatives on social media immediately lashed out at the news.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After the clubbing scandal, the Finnish media, which had already dubbed her Party Sanna, began ramping up its coverage of Marin’s off-the-clock activities.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Slowly, Tom and Robbie unwind the plot points we’ve already been clubbed over the head with.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Pavement was real end-of-the-century stuff, punk’s ethos of sledgehammering critique stripped of its former heroism and shock value.
    Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • Under cover of darkness, a squad of SEALs enters a two-story apartment building, slips upstairs, and sledgehammers its way through a wall, awakening a family on the other side.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The admission came the day after two Jewish worshipers were killed and three others seriously injured in a car ramming and stabbing attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in the Manchester suburb of Crumpsall on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism.
    Peter Wilkinson, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • One of the victims had been stabbed several times in the head and was taken to a hospital for treatment, police said.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • An overlapping full-back who can whip over a hell of a cross.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Pretty sure the border is whipped topping as well.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
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“Sledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sledge. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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