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baton

noun as in stick used for conducting or for protection

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And Asia was happy to pick up the baton.

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He thinks the Democratic nominee will pick up the baton from de Blasio, who “took those programs away from communities that desperately needed them and wanted them.”

Although familiar faces remain from the start of her tenure, Bright's international retirement is the latest from a historic generation that is starting to pass on the baton.

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Police said workers of TLP "resorted to stone pelting, spiked batons, and petrol bombs" and opened "indiscriminate fire, resulting in casualties among civilians and law enforcement personnel".

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At the ICE facility in Broadview on Saturday night, police pulled out wooden batons and pushed the crowd down the street, threatening to deploy tear gas if people didn’t disperse and go home.

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