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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

She said she and other residents had noticed dead pike, carp, roach, eel, rudd and dace.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Similarly, pike have a well-developed lateral-line sensory system that allows them to sense vibration, movement and pressure changes in the water.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026

“The market is thinking there’s a lot more downside coming down the pike than upside on inflation,” Skyler Weinand, chief investment officer of Regan Capital, said in a phone interview.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

When she saw the dwarf standing at the end of the gangplank, Ysilla stopped so suddenly that Yandry blundered into her, and the pike almost slid off her back into the river.

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

She added: “Probably done 100 Yurchenko double pikes, and the first one and then the last one I’ve done, they all feel the same — scary.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024

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

It makes as much sense as arming our soldiers with crossbows and pikes.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2018

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

Aided by bucklers and their own agility, the Spanish got in between and underneath the Germans’ long pikes and were able to hurt them at their pleasure, without the Germans having any remedy.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

And whether she gets the piked Arabian on beam named after her, or makes it back to Worlds or even the Olympics, she doesn’t expect medals to be her comeback legacy.

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

Still piking, eh?" he chuckled; "you wouldn't trail along after Your Uncle Bunch and get next to the candy man, would you?

From Back to the Woods by Hugh McHugh

I say, Rube, let's you and I be piking it for the college.

From Over the Line by Harold Morrow Sherman

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

But I'll never go piking off through the country alone so long as I know what I am doing.

From Rodney The Partisan by Harry Castlemon

Germans have spies "piking off" our Embassies in Paris, London and Petrograd.

From Face to Face with Kaiserism by James W. (James Watson) Gerard