hatchet
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The hatchet burial has been brewing for a while.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 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
Wang delivered spectacularly, becoming the leader’s indispensable hatchet man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Tottenham were still far too slick for Copenhagen and Van de Ven buried the hatchet in the 64th minute.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025
He also started collecting armloads of firewood, cutting and splitting the wood with a small handsaw and hatchet, and stacking it in a straight pile against the cabin.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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
The guests are a bundle of nerves when they arrive, still reeling from Logan’s death and their subsequent hurried, haphazard burying of various hatchets.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
Alan recalls exposed wooden beams that were notched with hatchets to achieve a hand-cut look, the original embossed-leather wallpaper and the solid two-inch oak front door that “took a lot of work” to open.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
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
Wherever we went looking for food, we heard the sounds of hatchets and saws.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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