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Recent Examples of walking stick
Russian troops on walking sticks were targeted on the front line in Ukraine, a battlefield video appears to show.
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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
Just don’t forget to ask the staff about a brown bag lunch and pick up your walking stick, given to every guest upon arrival, before setting out into the woods.
—Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2025
His friend Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov urges him to compose, using a walking stick to tickle him awake.
—Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
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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
Just don’t forget to ask the staff about a brown bag lunch and pick up your walking stick, given to every guest upon arrival, before setting out into the woods.
—Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2025
His friend Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov urges him to compose, using a walking stick to tickle him awake.
—Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for walking stick
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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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Police allegedly found the body of Méndez, 43, who was from Colombia, with injuries indicating she had been killed with a hammer, while her American husband, Jarrod Gelling, 46, had knife wounds consistent with suicide, according to reports.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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Making the playoffs is going to be a steep uphill climb, and every multi-run collapse like Wednesday night’s hammers morale.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
20 June 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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Historians speculate that the first golfer was likely a shepherd who grew bored with his work one day, swung his crook and made contact with a rock that went flying.—
Miles Corwin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 June 2025
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Hours later, the crooks let themselves into the victim’s home, and walked off with about $6,000 worth of clothes — and two French bulldogs, cops said.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
6 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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John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.—
Matt Schubert,
The Denver Post,
3 Nov. 2024
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The House took a sledgehammer to the green energy tax credits, including by stating that only renewable projects that begin construction within 60 days of the bill’s passage would remain eligible.—
Rachel Frazin,
The Hill,
17 June 2025
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Video footage of the incident shows an agent taking a sledgehammer to the couple's car window and dragging a man out of his car to be detained.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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All types of these beetles emerge in late spring to midsummer and start looking for mates.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
27 May 2025
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The real-life Cordyceps, however, only infects insects such as ants, beetles, butterflies, moths and spiders — the rest of the plot is science fiction.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
6 May 2025
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“Walking stick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walking%20stick. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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