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cleaver

[klee-ver] / ˈkli vər /
NOUN
cutting instrument
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In the especially nasty autumn of 1954, women in June Cleaver dresses and gas masks protested outside the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The Artemis II crew are set to travel to the Moon powered by the European Service Module, which includes large solar arrays made by Cleaver and her team in Bremen.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

By shooting down four MiG-15s in a single fight, “Royce Williams had accomplished what no other American fighter pilot would ever accomplish,” Thomas McKelvey Cleaver wrote in a history of the Korean naval air campaign.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

“I would hate for that to happen, but that’s where we are,” Cleaver said.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2025

One of them answered, “None of us is free, Sister Inzilla. Eldridge Cleaver isn’t free. Huey Newton isn’t free. H. Rap Brown isn’t free. Muhammad Ali isn’t free.”

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia




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