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Recent Examples of walking stick
Wearing a suit by the designer, Khan also sported one of the night’s perfect dandy accessories, a walking stick, conceptualized by Mukherjee to feature a Bengal tiger in 18-karat gold and embellished with tourmalines, sapphires, old mine-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds.
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Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
The same kind of nationwide monitoring by amateur naturalists doesn’t exist for less charismatic insects such as walking sticks.
—Eliza Grames, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
Russian troops on walking sticks were targeted on the front line in Ukraine, a battlefield video appears to show.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
According to prosecutors, body camera footage and his own words, Barnett entered Pelosi’s office suite with a flagpole and a stun device concealed in a walking stick.
—Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
The same kind of nationwide monitoring by amateur naturalists doesn’t exist for less charismatic insects such as walking sticks.
—Eliza Grames, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
Russian troops on walking sticks were targeted on the front line in Ukraine, a battlefield video appears to show.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
According to prosecutors, body camera footage and his own words, Barnett entered Pelosi’s office suite with a flagpole and a stun device concealed in a walking stick.
—Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for walking stick
Noun
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These included his miter and crozier, a pouch of commemorative coins, an official papal document known as the Rogito, a rosary and his fisherman's ring.—
Bethany Braun-Silva,
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2025
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Dozens of bishops gathered outside, their white robes whipping in the wind as Archbishop of Paris Laurent Ulrich struck the closed cathedral doors with his crozier, an ornate staff, to officially mark the cathedral’s reopening.—
Joshua Berlinger,
CNN,
7 Dec. 2024
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According to police, on the day of the attack, Robert Babin got into a heated argument with his mother and repeatedly hit her with a hammer, KRIV reported.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 July 2025
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But there is no man with a hammer; the happy man lives at his ease, and trivial daily cares faintly agitate him like the wind in the aspen-tree — and all goes well.—
Philip Metres
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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World & Nation Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s ‘heart’ in 5 years Dec. 6, 2024 The ceremony began with Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wooden doors, tapping them three times with his fire-scarred crosier.—
Thomas Adamson and John Leicester,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Dec. 2024
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Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
29 Nov. 2024
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And finally, Harold von Kursk has the incredible story of how a group of first-time crooks pulled off one of the most audacious heists ever, stealing $40 million worth of gold bars from a warehouse at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
2 Aug. 2025
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Where to watch: HBO Max 'Riff Raff' There's a lot to love about this crime comedy starring Ed Harris as a former crook trying to live his life in peace with his wife (Gabrielle Union).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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The half ended with the Free Jacks once again putting the Sabercats under pressure, trying to force their way over the tryline through a rolling maul, and twice failing to score.—
Vitas Carosella,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Minutes later, Hanover scored back-to-back tries with near identical mauls down the sideline.—
Marcello Rossetti,
Boston Herald,
14 June 2025
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Mayor Michelle Wu gleefully took a sledgehammer to the walls of an eight-story South Boston building to break ground on the city’s largest office-to-residential conversion project to date, accounting for 77 of the 141 such units under construction.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
17 July 2025
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Blunt instrument The Supreme Court’s new test, with its implicit suggestion that coercion is found in exposure to materials that go against central tenets of parental religion, is more sledgehammer than scalpel.—
Stephen L. Carter,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
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Check your trees regularly, especially in late spring and early summer, when beetle activity is at its highest.—
James Campbell,
Mercury News,
28 July 2025
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The beetles feed on a variety of deciduous plants, but the grubs usually are the biggest issue for homeowners.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
27 July 2025
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“Walking stick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walking%20stick. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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