cane
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Nieuwenhuijsen knew from Levine’s podcast that he was also researching a potential companion to his unnamed “Lady,” that portrait of a young Black man in a green jacket and cane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
He said weather and global warming also affected many products the business brings in, such as tropical fruits, vanilla, cocoa, sugar cane.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
That’s in part because Crouch is 75, and a bicycle accident has him using a cane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
"At current sugar prices, it simply doesn't make economic sense for mills to divert cane juice to ethanol, so India's sugar scenario should be quite all right going forward," Chaturvedi said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
As he came out from behind the counter, he walked with the help of a cane that had the name “Harry” written on its barrel.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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This necessitates using canes, trekking poles and the occasional walker as well as taking a wheelchair to the airport gate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Elderly and propping himself up with canes, he said this conflict was of a different magnitude.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
Once able-bodied men, they walk with canes, one step at a time.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
Some had canes or family members to guide them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
I clamp the loppers down on the canes.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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Italy was caned by New Zealand 96-17 last week in Lyon but the Azzurri are usually thrashed by the All Blacks.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
Before drafting his design, Mr. Jouin visited the Richelieu and saw a mix of seating in various rooms, including rows of high-backed caned chairs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
I ended up selling our beloved caned bentwood chairs because they just weren't comfortable to sit in for a long time.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2022
In 1835, a deranged house painter tried to shoot two pistols at President Andrew Jackson outside the building; the guns misfired, and Jackson caned his assailant into submission.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2021
"You do," said his father, but in spite of his indignation, the broken-down look of the boy, and the memory of his own sensations when waiting to be caned that morning, moved him to pity.
From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by F. Anstey
Brooks decided to resign as a matter of honor, although he asserted that the House had no right to punish him since the caning had been a personal matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
“Miracle on 34th Street” probably was the first movie to give the commercialism of the holidays a stiff caning as we watch mega-department stores Gimbel’s and Macy’s try to outdo each other in Christmas sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
Zimbabwe's constitutional court has banned the caning of juvenile convicts as a judicial punishment.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2019
If Sietsema gave a brutal caning to a new spot you’d probably look askance if you found out that he owned a place across the street.
From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2018
The next one had on it: Why has south eastern Alaska so many caning factories?
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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