hatchet
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The hatchet burial has been brewing for a while.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
While a pair of lawsuits fractured their relationship between 2021 and 2023, IBM and GlobalFoundries have since buried the hatchet.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Wang delivered spectacularly, becoming the leader’s indispensable hatchet man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
But wanting to remind folks that he could still be funny, he decided to bury the hatchet with “Saturday Night Live,” returning to host in 2019: “‘SNL’ is part of my history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
Inside there was a hatchet, the kind with a steel handle and a rubber handgrip.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
The documentary closes on a similar note: Take That are national treasures, their reputation is secure, their hatchets are buried.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
The smugglers had placed the radio and hatchets there to help the migrants call for help and break out of the trailer should they run into trouble.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
The sound of hatchets resonates across the field: thwack, thwack, thwack.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
This is perhaps why the title of Aron’s book is taken from Carry Nation, the 19th-century temperance crusader who took hatchets to bar tops and greeted bartenders as “destroyers of men’s souls.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2020
If only I had had as many arms as the goddess Durga—two to hold the gaffs, four to grasp the fish and two to wield the hatchets.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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