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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 pike and walleye anglers may be in for a trophy-sized surprise.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 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

She reached into the smoke and brought back a pike, the top of which had been looped into the yurt near the central post.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

The store, in the Baileys Crossroads area, is northwest of the Skyline Towers development and southeast of the intersection of Leesburg and Columbia pikes.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2021

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

I’ve done enough jumping that the first tricks felt straightforward, starting with tucks and pikes and a seated drop.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2017

The two guards stood out on the street, holding their pikes.

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

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

On bars, Douglas demonstrated why she is nicknamed The Flying Squirrel with the height of her piked Tkatchevs and double straight dismount and the US left no room for error on beam or floor either.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2012

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

It’s been done, though, by little, pettifogging shysters, by piking real-estate crooks—thousands of parcels of property scattered all over the United States have been filched in that manner.

From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory

I had been piking along and while I was giving my little firm entire satisfaction, I was not pleasing myself with what I was doing.

From Tales of the Road by Charles N. (Charles Newman) Crewdson

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

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

He was so absorbed that he did not see me, nor the two helmets piking above my shoulder.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott