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Recent Examples of mallet
Jaylen Brown’s 22 points paced a balanced offensive effort from Boston, which was playing without starters Kristaps Porzingis (illness) and Jrue Holiday (mallet finger) for the second straight game.
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Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
The black-and-white films all feature 9-year-old Saint hitting wrestlers with a mallet, set to a new Ye album.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Smashing a watermelon with a giant mallet to the messy delight of audiences, Leo Gallagher became one of the biggest comedy acts of the 1980s and shot to superstardom.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
The film depicts West’s son Saint West in a wrestling ring, taking on hoards of wrestlers by himself, armed with a toy mallet while the album plays in the background.
—Ethan Millman, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mallet
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If the Administration were not using this kind of fake (to borrow a term) legalism as an excuse to take a hammer to higher education, the letter might be funny.—
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The indiscriminate slashing has given impotent Democrats a hammer to use against the administration.—
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Yet simply revoking these programs is another example of Trump reacting to complicated issues with a sledgehammer approach.—
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Its method of doing so is tantamount to hitting a fly with a sledgehammer.—
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This first-of-its-kind assessment evaluated nearly 1,600 species — including bees, beetles, butterflies, moths, flower flies, bats, and hummingbirds.—
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Explore the different types of birds, butterflies, bees, and beetles, pollinating the lagoon’s diverse flowers.—
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John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.—
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Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.—
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Self then struck down his gavel and abruptly ended the meeting.—
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Self then quickly tapped his gavel and adjourned the meeting.—
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Designers are treating them as conversation pieces to bring more texture, proportion, and detail into a room—we’re seeing bold silhouettes, statement-making legs, faceted fronts that play with light and shadow, and materials ranging from earthy mango wood to coastal cane.—
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Elaborate breads are baked into the shapes of carpenter’s tools, ladders, and canes, which symbolize Joseph’s staff, while bread crumbs are scattered to represent sawdust.—
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“Mallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mallet. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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