as in to spear
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Vecna gets speared, the monster goes down, the creepy heart stops beating and everyone's alive!—
Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
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The knife remains in the dominant hand, poised to cut when necessary or push food that can’t be speared atop the fork’s overturned tines.—
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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.—
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Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.—
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Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures.—
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Before long, fairs had such attractions as cudgelling bouts, bearbaiting, and something called gouging.—
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Trump has also repeatedly lashed out over the state’s incarceration of Tina Peters, the former county clerk convicted of state felonies related to her attempts to prove discredited election conspiracies shared by the president.—
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According to Augustinus Bader, apply to brows and lashes morning and night.—
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Shane Stant clubs Kerrigan on the knee and flees the scene.—
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Now welcome to that big britches club the strappy and sweaty table tennis player Marty Mauser (portrayed to the 10s by Timothée Chalamet).—
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Pavement was real end-of-the-century stuff, punk’s ethos of sledgehammering critique stripped of its former heroism and shock value.—
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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.—
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The woman who was stabbed is in stable condition, and the man is in critical condition, the spokesperson said.—
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Early the following morning, Anaheim police officers responded to the intersection of Santa Ana and Helena streets after witnesses reported seeing two men chasing Reyes and one of them stabbing him.—
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There were some frightening moments early Monday for a Miramar man after police say he was pistol whipped during a home invasion and his French bulldog was stolen.—
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Or whips around his defender in a bold pirouette.—
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“Sledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sledge. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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