hatchet
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No media hatchet man could come up with a more damaging word to describe what happened out there.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“He fought the bear off with a hatchet, and ultimately they both got away,” Collins said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Most famously, Parson Weems invented from whole cloth the story about young Washington taking a hatchet to his father’s cherry tree, then confessing to it.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026
The government took a hatchet to its payrolls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
She turned and scrambled up the outcroppings, picking up the hatchet that was to have been splitting kindling all this time.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
The documentary closes on a similar note: Take That are national treasures, their reputation is secure, their hatchets are buried.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
When agents stopped a truck going through a Border Patrol highway checkpoint in Texas earlier this month they found 70 illegal immigrants in the semi-trailer — and walkie-talkie and two hatchets.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
The sound of hatchets resonates across the field: thwack, thwack, thwack.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
This is perhaps why the title of Aron’s book is taken from Carry Nation, the 19th-century temperance crusader who took hatchets to bar tops and greeted bartenders as “destroyers of men’s souls.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2020
They leave with some colorful glass beads, mirrors, bells, needles, pins, several pieces of copper, and three hatchets.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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