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drumstick

[druhm-stik] / ˈdrʌmˌstɪk /


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Much like that final drumstick you probably shouldn’t have eaten, equities spent last week digesting their gains.

From Barron's ● Dec. 7, 2025

The researchers found that in birds, the tibial joint surfaces have curved arcs, and the shortened fibula is able to roll within the bird's drumstick for about its length relative to the tibia.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024

Some 75.3 million years ago, a dinosaur swallowed the Cretaceous equivalent of a turkey drumstick.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

After that, Hernandez said, he snatched a drumstick out of her hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Though her palm had given the first tap, she would not rob me of the thunder of the first wicked drumstick drumroll.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

By the time the night was over, and Dailor was alone out front saying his goodbyes and tossing drumsticks into the crowd, Mastodon showed it was still surviving and thriving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Its internal speaker plays a rumbling soundtrack that sends the drumsticks attached to the instrument flittering, giving the sense of a ghostly presence tapping out a brooding dirge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

"You are my god," Sanae Takaichi, a hard rock enthusiast, told the band's drummer Ian Paice, beaming as she handed him a pair of signed Japanese-made drumsticks.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

“Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth, appearing alongside his wife, is asked whether he prefers drumsticks, flats, or boneless wings.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

There were the drumsticks Tito Puente used when he played Carnegie Hall in ’72.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez


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