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
The hatchet burial has been brewing for a while.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
A California couple attacked by a bear outside their eastern Sierra Nevada home have survived the encounter after fighting off the animal with a water bottle and a hatchet, authorities said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
And, yes, there was the blackened hatchet blade and a tiny round piece of metal.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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 smugglers had placed the radio and hatchets there to help the migrants call for help and break out of the trailer should they run into trouble.
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
Wherever we went looking for food, we heard the sounds of hatchets and saws.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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