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Recent Examples of mallet
With Ayres’ hands at the mallets, the vibes were remolded into a tool of spacy musical exploration.
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Karina Tsui, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
Jaylen Brown’s 22 points paced a balanced offensive effort from Boston, which was playing without starters Kristaps Porzingis (illness) and Jrue Holiday (mallet finger) for the second straight game.
—Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
The black-and-white films all feature 9-year-old Saint hitting wrestlers with a mallet, set to a new Ye album.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Smashing a watermelon with a giant mallet to the messy delight of audiences, Leo Gallagher became one of the biggest comedy acts of the 1980s and shot to superstardom.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
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Karina Tsui, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
Jaylen Brown’s 22 points paced a balanced offensive effort from Boston, which was playing without starters Kristaps Porzingis (illness) and Jrue Holiday (mallet finger) for the second straight game.
—Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
The black-and-white films all feature 9-year-old Saint hitting wrestlers with a mallet, set to a new Ye album.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Smashing a watermelon with a giant mallet to the messy delight of audiences, Leo Gallagher became one of the biggest comedy acts of the 1980s and shot to superstardom.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mallet
Noun
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Tariffs hammer tech Premarket moves among the Magnificent Seven tech stocks were broadly lower Wednesday, with Tesla (TSLA+17.81%) off 1% and Apple slipping 2% in early trading.—
Catherine Baab,
Quartz,
9 Apr. 2025
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Over the last few years, Deadheads have reveled in videos of Weir working out in gyms and in the great outdoors with various weights and hammers.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2025
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Doing it with the ‘sledgehammer’ of a larger Tariff than 1930′s Smoot-Hawley, was bound to cause Turmoil in stocks, bonds, credit and commodities.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2025
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An ambitious new effort to reframe the U.S. approach to climate is taking a sledgehammer to shibboleths on the left and the right.—
Ben Geman,
Axios,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But instead of controlling destructive sugar cane beetle populations, the amphibians quickly became their own ecological catastrophe.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 Apr. 2025
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Another insect flagged in the report was the mountain pine beetle, which has been building populations along Colorado’s Front Rage and in other parts of the state.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
8 Apr. 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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Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.—
Ivan Carter,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2024
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Self then struck down his gavel and abruptly ended the meeting.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
12 Mar. 2025
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Self then quickly tapped his gavel and adjourned the meeting.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them,
12 Mar. 2025
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Designers are treating them as conversation pieces to bring more texture, proportion, and detail into a room—we’re seeing bold silhouettes, statement-making legs, faceted fronts that play with light and shadow, and materials ranging from earthy mango wood to coastal cane.—
Bailey Berg,
Architectural Digest,
4 Apr. 2025
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Elaborate breads are baked into the shapes of carpenter’s tools, ladders, and canes, which symbolize Joseph’s staff, while bread crumbs are scattered to represent sawdust.—
Cindy Salvato,
Saveur,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Mallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mallet. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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