hatchet
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The hatchet burial has been brewing for a while.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
“He fought the bear off with a hatchet, and ultimately they both got away,” Collins said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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
Cole prided himself on how sharp he kept his knife and hatchet.
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
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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