gavel
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Appeared in the November 22, 2025, print edition as 'The Man With the Gavel at Sotheby’s'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025
Her book “Charged” won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the current-interest category and the Silver Gavel book award from the American Bar Association.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020
Although the Golden Gavel is actually a brass gavel, some senators have enjoyed the mark of distinction so much that they sit through hundreds of hours to take home two gavels.
From Fox News • Feb. 5, 2020
After nearly two decades of trying, Gavel was playing in his first final, so it was kind of a big deal for him.
From Golf Digest • Dec. 24, 2019
The man's voice took Mr. Gavel somewhat aback.
From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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