axes
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It bears heavy signs of use and was made by Fuhrer Frères of Gstaad, the same Swiss firm that supplied fifteen axes to the 1924 Everest expedition.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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
“Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency,” Reuters announced last week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 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
Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
