hatchet
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While a pair of lawsuits fractured their relationship between 2021 and 2023, IBM and GlobalFoundries have since buried the hatchet.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
An image from the scene appeared to show a hatchet with a yellow and black handle lying in the back seat.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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
Captain Smith finds me using a hatchet to sharpen palisade post tips.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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
Yet despite many statements over the years that old hatchets have been buried — the intraband litigation file goes back decades — the Beach Boys are not quite united.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 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
If only I had had as many arms as the goddess Durga—two to hold the gaffs, four to grasp the fish and two to wield the hatchets.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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