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Use It To Help Flatten Chicken Breasts Before pounding any meat to create cutlets, use wax paper in between it and your mallet to help avoid any unwanted stickiness and keep it in place.
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 6 Apr. 2025
The 34-year-old Holiday dealt with multiple injuries during the regular season, including a mallet finger ailment that has forced him to play with a cast on his right pinky since early March.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
Flames erupt as downstairs, Kate grabs the mallet and gives Joe a matching blow to the head.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
The neuronal structures sit on a mesh of electrodes, which capture neural signals to send to the mallets.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 6 Apr. 2025
The 34-year-old Holiday dealt with multiple injuries during the regular season, including a mallet finger ailment that has forced him to play with a cast on his right pinky since early March.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
Flames erupt as downstairs, Kate grabs the mallet and gives Joe a matching blow to the head.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
The neuronal structures sit on a mesh of electrodes, which capture neural signals to send to the mallets.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mallet
Noun
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To remove a stubborn hinge pin, place a small screwdriver, bit, nail, or similar item into the bottom of the hinge and tap the pin out with a hammer.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 May 2025
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The murder weapons included dagger, hatchet, hammer, necktie.—
Rich Cohen,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2025
Noun
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Donald Trump's second term, meanwhile, has taken a sledgehammer to the European economy's already dire prospects.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
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Nothing is fixed with a sledgehammer, only destroyed.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
12 May 2025
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Ryan Gary/The Sunroom Shea notes that over the years, APHIS employees have worked to successfully eradicate or keep at bay pests such as the boll weevil, a beetle that feeds on cotton buds, and New World screwworm, a parasite that burrows into the open wounds of animals.—
Andrea Hsu,
NPR,
30 May 2025
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Traps also are not successful in eliminating adult populations and actually attract more beetles to your yard.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
27 May 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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The speaker issued a warning for order, banging the gavel.—
Lisa Mascaro,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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In the opening minutes of the president’s remarks, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) interrupted loudly, which prompted the Speaker to bang his gavel in warning before ordering security to escort the lawmaker, clutching a cane, out of the chamber.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
5 Mar. 2025
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Arkansas Game and Fish Commission educators will provide cane poles, rods and reels, bait and tackle and offer fishing tips.—
Flip Putthoff,
Arkansas Online,
20 May 2025
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Meanwhile sugar cane extract gently exfoliates while antioxidants to signs of aging, for overall more vibrant skin tone and improve elasticity.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
19 May 2025
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“Mallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mallet. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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