tomahawk
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There will be a “carvery countdown” with tomahawk steak bones branded with JPMorgan and SpaceX logos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
"You can have Japanese food, you can have Austrian food, you can have always the best steak," the Austrian-born restaurateur told AFP, as he seared a juicy tomahawk at a Tuesday press preview event.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
For eight breathtaking seasons, LeBron James has poured his soul into pleasing a passionate fan base such that he still fills Crypto.com Arena with joy and light and tomahawk dunks at age 41.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
Until this weekend I never saw anybody use a tomahawk missile or witnessed the CIA being involved in such operations.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2026
He blocked another shot, hit a jumper from beyond three-point range, drove the lane and finished with this sick tomahawk over two guys.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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The Braves did not place their usual foam tomahawks on seats for Game 2 of that series, a decision the franchise said was a result of Helsley’s comments.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
Following Helsley's complaint, the Braves stopped distributing the red foam tomahawks used by fans doing the chop during the series.
From Fox News ● Oct. 28, 2021
“He seems so full of joy. He’s big, and I like to imagine he does stuff to make himself bigger, but not gym stuff … more like throwing tomahawks or fighting sharks,” she says.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2020
The nation needs windmills, 360s, and ferocious tomahawks more than ever before.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2020
Among these tomahawks, was the largest that ever I saw.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
Gallen left another pitch up in the fourth and Albies tomahawked it out to right, tying it at 3.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
"He got the outs. Calhoun just tomahawked that ball. It’s why it’s the big leagues."
From Fox News ● Apr. 25, 2021
I’m telling you, it cut a yard, and it was tomahawked.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 24, 2020
When his forward progress was halted by Perkins’s mighty right arm to his chest, Griffin tomahawked the ball into the basket.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
In company with some ruthless vagrant—in the shape of a secret communication from enemies in Canada—it would be slandered, abused, and tomahawked at the foot of the throne.
From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by J. George (John George) Hodgins
Battles with Nick Faldo, tomahawking a club into a lake, claiming Tiger Woods intentionally tried to distract him mid-swing?
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 6, 2019
Next time up the floor, Griffin attacked the basket, intent on tomahawking a one-handed dunk over Nene.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2015
“Fool!” exclaimed Magadar, scarce able to refrain from tomahawking the brave in his wrath—“launch the canoes and give chase.”
From The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Croker openly said that he expected to lose his pension very shortly, and, being wishful to make himself a literary position before that event happened, he had begun by "tomahawking Miss Martineau."
From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller
His head throbbed from the tomahawking, but his wits were still in working order, and when asked by Satanta where he had been, he replied that he had been out searching for "whoa-haws."
From Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister by Helen Cody Wetmore
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