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maces

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plural of mace

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Some pushed against barricades and scuffled with police, who responded by firing tear gas rounds, using water cannon and beating them with batons, TV footage showed.

— Reuters, NBC news, 11 Aug. 2026
For 15 minutes, officers used batons and stun guns to subdue King.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026

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The robbers fought with murderous determination, and the police answered with their truncheons.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 July 2026
Hundreds of people crowded the runway to greet Ali, pushing against a cordon of soldiers armed with truncheons.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025

Definition of truncheons

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Pruning In winter, when canes are done producing fruit for the season, prune the canes that bore fruit down to the base of the plant so new ones will grow in the spring.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2026
Sales of Cardinal’s consumer healthcare products, such as crutches, canes and its Leader brand of cough drops and other over-the-counter medications, are also reported here.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026

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When words lose their original meanings and are repurposed as verbal cudgels, the public sphere becomes a jungle of denunciation, intimidation, and even violence.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
While the conservative pushback and Trump’s cudgels are encouraging some companies to abandon formal DEI policies, analysts say an emphasis on diversity continues and is quietly evolving beneath the surface.

— William Becker, The Hill, 11 Aug. 2025

Definition of cudgels

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During an autopsy, a pathologist threaded flexible rods through some of the holes in order to track the bullets’ trajectory.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Aug. 2026
Workers pack the fuel rods inside cast-iron structural inserts, which sit within thick copper outer canisters.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026

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