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Firefighters responded, opened the rear end of the truck and used pike poles to remove the garbage by hand, according to Samuel Menchaca, a public information officer with the San Francisco Fire Department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Lucy Galvin, the city council leader, said she and other residents had noticed dead pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd and dace.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

But if it’s part of a larger pattern of opacity, instability and conflicting messaging, something larger might be coming down the pike.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

Even if it was a pretty incredible northern pike, his first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

She admired the fish extravagantly, rewarded the fisherman with a purse of silver, and sent the pike to her kitchens.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

One gun did not give its possessor an advantage in battle over opponents armed with swords, pikes, or lances.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Arriving in the Tibetan quarter of Chengdu, where tens of thousands of Tibetans live under the state’s watchful gaze, officers with pikes and batons stand sentry while police lights flash red and blue.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

But avoiding pain is not always possible as elite divers perform a dizzying array of pikes, tucks and somersaults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

Before every event, players serving as “reeves” — a sort of referee — conduct a weapons check to make sure the swords, pikes, arrows and other implements comply with strict safety requirements.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2018

As they groped their way past giant boulders, using their stolen pikes as walking sticks, Werfel cranked his spectacles to maximum magnification and looked back down the slope.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Here’s what happened: First, my stomach sank as the Russian Olympic Committee’s normally-stunning Nikita Nagornyy debuted his triple back piked salto—only to almost sit down the landing and stumble out of bounds multiple times.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021

Almost 20 years later, Memmel hopes to add her name to a new type of piked Arabian.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2020

The 'firework' 3.5 somersault with one twist routine replaces what had become known as his 'demon' dive - a piked 2.5 somersault, 2.5 twist routine - which Taylor actually invented.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2015

She soared so high on her first release, flipping herself up and back over the bar, her legs piked, that she could have reached out and touched her toes before grabbing the bar.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2012

Peter dug his crutches into the turf and piked hard.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

He 's just a plain, ordinary, piking crook.

From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by J. V. McFall

Would like to see him begging his bread, would you, or piking in the bucket-shops for five-dollar bills!

From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer

Last seen she was piking off after Miss Busy Buzzy.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Pauline Lester

The topography was nearly as broken, in its way, as the natural "piking" spread over it, and very beautiful with the dense forests lighted by the slanting yellow rays of the afternoon sun.

From Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills by Luella Agnes Owen

You don't look as if you had come to that—though it's queer the sort of fellows you do meet piking sometimes.

From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett