Thesaurus results for BATON

baton

noun

bə-ˈtän

as in cane

a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment the detainee claimed that the police had beat him with their batons even after he had been shackled

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Recent Examples of baton The wounded and dead from Saturday's violence in Malekshahi were taken to the Imam Khomeini hospital in Ilam, where security forces stormed the compound and used batons, tear gas and live fire, according to Hengaw. —

Henry Austin, NBC news, 7 Jan. 2026 Hodges managed to hang on to his baton but then found himself on all fours, surrounded by the mob, terrified that he would soon be torn apart. —

Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026 Do these four stories, with their subtle yet strategic variations of attitude and circumstance, smack of a troubling tidiness—a desire to cover as much sociological ground as possible with each pass of the narrative baton? —

Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2026 Wednesday, the baton was passed. —

Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 1 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for baton

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cane

Noun

Link, along with several other waterfowl biologists, also cited the growing prevalence of crawdad farming and replacement of rice with sugar cane.

— Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 14 Jan. 2026
Plants should bloom more reliably and rose canes will thicken as their roots establish.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 10 Jan. 2026