mace

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Recent Examples of mace The nanny said the suspects entered via a patio door, confronted her, and sprayed her in the face with the mace. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2025 Making the inflammatory effects much more intense than traditional mace used for self-defense, Knauerhaze explained. Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 2 June 2025 Manley thinks this is due to tradition and people trusting their guns over bear mace. Benjamin Alva Polley, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025 In Mari’s attempt to escape, they both were sprayed with mace, leaving them equally in pain and defeated. Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mace
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mace
Noun
  • Other dolls in the Fashionistas line include a blind Barbie who carries a cane, a Barbie with Down syndrome, and a Barbie who uses a wheelchair.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 8 July 2025
  • During their investigation, officers learned the woman’s 44-year-old son, Joseph Cavallaro, attacked his mother and beat her with a cane, prosecutors said.
    Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Her eyes are big and sad, and her index finger touches the tip of the nightstick hanging from the policeman’s belt.
    Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • This, in turn, provoked police to wade into the crowd, beating people with nightsticks.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • Juice takes the baton and continues his journey to hopefully discovering inner-peace.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 11 July 2025
  • Sangay, who took up the baton as the political leader of the exiled government, said that by making the transition to democracy the Dalai Lama wanted to ensure Tibetans can run the movement and the government on their own, even after he is gone.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Even the basic concept of free speech has become another truncheon in the nation’s ongoing battle between tribes.
    Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2025
  • There were police with truncheons and tear gas outside the ground.
    Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Though Trump has deployed Vance on multiple foreign tours through their first 100 days in office, where the vice president has served as a messaging cudgel touting Trump’s isolationist foreign policy, the president himself is yet to take a trip overseas.
    Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And so Coetzee decided that El polaco would be his bludgeon against the dominance of English.
    Carey Baraka, The Dial, 26 June 2025
  • When the Republican Charles Sumner was struck down by a Southerner on the Senate floor, Raymond’s paper called for armed resistance by pistol, bludgeon, and bowie knife, if necessary.
    Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Using a multicolored bat and down to his last out, Caminero took three pitches and hit a liner to left.
    Ronald Blum, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2025
  • Colorado shared an image on social media of a young Ethan Holliday wielding a purple bat at Coors Field while sucking on a pacifier.
    Charles Odum, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
Noun
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    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Mace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mace. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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