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“That sort of thing to get away from special interest groups having an ax to grind then and then, abusing the corporate governance process for their ends,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

The stock was lifted earlier this week by the news that regulators moved to ax a decades-old rule that required “pattern day traders” to keep a minimum $25,000 equity in their margin accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Disney is preparing to ax as many as 1,000 positions in the next few weeks, The Wall Street Journal External link reported late Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

If U.S. regulators really don’t want the country’s biggest filmed content streamer to own HBO and Warner’s studios, then they’ll ax the Netflix deal.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026

Old Tallow shook her head, sadly, and lifted her ax.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

It is his Excalibur, his Andúril, the vaunted weapon only he can string and use to hit a bullseye through a row of twelve crossed axes.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Arrabaca had two axes, a hammer, a machete, six fireworks and three fixed-blade knives, Barnacle said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

"Meaning, as they spin around on their axes and orbit around their parents, those rates/frequencies match, leading to the phenomena like us only seeing one side of our moon."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

The towering ambition of the men remaking the landscape with saws and axes, and the men, like Grainier, who were somehow pulled through that current.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

Wooden clubs, stone axes, mauls, spears with fire-hardened points, knives of bone and stone and dragon- glass, wicker shields, bone armor, boiled leather.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Since taking over, Warsh has axed so-called "forward guidance" on the likely direction of Fed policy and called for the central bank to communicate less on its decision-making process.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Dependable harvest jobs for farmworkers have been axed, as some growers can’t afford the expense of picking and storing crops they might not be able to sell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The sweeping layoffs will see more than 1,600 roles immediately axed at Xbox.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Roles across consulting, sales and the Xbox gaming unit are among those likely to be axed, the people also said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

When Sylvanus come back, I axed him, “You ever been on a train afore?”

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Slate went as far as to consider axing air conditioning from the truck to keep costs in check.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week seemed to come the closest a Cabinet official has come to a Trump axing this term.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026

In the meantime, the domestic club game is in crisis with the Welsh Rugby Union keen on axing one of the four professional teams competing in the United Rugby Championship to save money.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

At the end of last month, Amazon announced it was axing 14,000 jobs, saying it needed to be "organised more leanly" to seize the opportunity provided by AI.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

And I know they somethin wron cause all of a sudden the Head Orphan stop showin up cause I'm axing plenty question.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole