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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

“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

I will not switch the topic to the NBA Lottery or the French Open or tell you about the northern pike my son caught this weekend at Lake Monona.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

They left the pike and took a narrow road through the country and came at last upon a bridge and a dry creek and they crawled down the bank and huddled underneath.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

The collections of the Smithsonian contain, for instance, pikes from John Brown’s failed slave rebellion in the South in 1859.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 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

With their cooperation, Brown diverted money from the cause of Kansas to the purchase of guns and simple iron pikes to arm the slaves he expected to follow him.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

And the pikes sit by the thousands, rusting now in a Richmond warehouse because Jackson is dead and gone to glory.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

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

"All you got to do is keep your eyes peeled, and you'll see us piking in here right on the dot," laughed Tom.

From Bert Wilson on the Gridiron by J. W. Duffield

Yes, and this winter I've got a trip planned out that will make all the others look piking.

From Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

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

When the family kicked me out for marrying the finest girl that ever lived, my father cut me off with a piking allowance which I told him to put in the church plate.

From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Charles Klein

I don't want anybody up here piking around just because I took a double header into space.

From Tom Slade at Black Lake by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings