sledge

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Verb
  • In 1999, a fisherman in Malaysia was killed after being speared by a houndfish, according to the Courier-Post.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 30 June 2025
  • In 1999, a fishermen in Malaysia was killed after being speared by a houndfish.
    Dan Radel, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • Visuals also showed some people receiving CPR. Uncontrollable crowd Police started caning people at one gate, leading to more chaos, said Mithun Singh, a software engineer among the crowd.
    USA Today, USA Today, 5 June 2025
  • Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.
    Barbara A. Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures.
    Timothy Ryback, TIME, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Before long, fairs had such attractions as cudgelling bouts, bearbaiting, and something called gouging.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
Verb
  • Less than a week after Hegseth suspended them, deliveries abruptly started up again after President Donald Trump said Ukraine needed weapons to defend itself and lashed out at Vladimir Putin with the harshest language he's yet directed at the Russian leader.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 12 July 2025
  • More than a foot of rain lashed the region before the river flooding on Friday afternoon, NWS meteorologist James Wingenroth told Newsweek.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Verb
  • During a three-game series at Daikin Park, the Houston Astros right fielder clubbed two home runs, totaled four hits and drove in five runs.
    Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • Austin Wells homered later in the inning, and the Yankees ultimately won, 20-9, while clubbing a franchise-record nine home runs with a lineup full of torpedo bats.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Pavement was real end-of-the-century stuff, punk’s ethos of sledgehammering critique stripped of its former heroism and shock value.
    Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • Under cover of darkness, a squad of SEALs enters a two-story apartment building, slips upstairs, and sledgehammers its way through a wall, awakening a family on the other side.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • At some point, one of Valle's friends allegedly gave him a knife, which was used during the brawl to stab McGrath.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 11 July 2025
  • Porter was seen using his right hand to stab Abdirahman in the neck, according to the court documents.
    Mike Stunson July 10, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • The comet will also whip by Mars on October 2 at 18 million miles (30 million kilometers) from the red planet.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
  • An Italian meringue involves carefully and slowly drizzling a hot sugar syrup into egg whites while whipping them.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
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“Sledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sledge. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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