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cane

[kayn] / keɪn /
NOUN
stick to aid walking of disabled
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I was sitting in a packed cruise-ship theater in Grinch pajamas and matching headband, fuzzy red slippers and candy cane earrings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 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

Adding sugar was against John’s dietary principles, but William bought the recipe from his brother, added cane sugar to the mix, and created a company to make and market corn flakes in 1906.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Leaning on his cane, William would sport a bow tie and a natty black beret.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

Those costs will rise as France ages into dentures and canes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

And Buck’s partner, JT Friedman, leads a raucous rendition of Alan Jackson’s “Honky Tonk Christmas” while passing out candy canes from a stocking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

As the door swung closed, I spotted a row of canes of different lengths and thicknesses hanging behind it.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

Secular education comes to this: that the only reason for ceasing to do evil and learning to do well is that if you do not you will be caned.

From Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw

To him, the caning was in principle no different.

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

In 1911, about 30 pupils from Bigyn School walked out in protest at the "unjustified" caning of a fellow boy.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2021

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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