walking stick

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Recent Examples of walking stick Look for walking sticks specifically designed for older individuals:17 Choose an adjustable pole. Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024 He was last seen just before 11 a.m. Saturday carrying a brown bamboo walking stick and a black backpack near North Sherman Boulevard and West Capitol Drive in Milwaukee. Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2024 The most conspicuous objects on the seabed were porcelain and thousands of rattan canes, intended for use as walking sticks or in furniture-making. Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 But when the actor playing Judge Brack, the play’s lustful old bachelor, emerged from the wings with his walking stick, eyeglass and thick mustache, the house erupted in jeers and boos. Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for walking stick
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Noun
  • Tariffs hammer tech Premarket moves among the Magnificent Seven tech stocks were broadly lower Wednesday, with Tesla (TSLA+17.81%) off 1% and Apple slipping 2% in early trading.
    Catherine Baab, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Over the last few years, Deadheads have reveled in videos of Weir working out in gyms and in the great outdoors with various weights and hammers.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • World & Nation Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s ‘heart’ in 5 years Dec. 6, 2024 The ceremony began with Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wooden doors, tapping them three times with his fire-scarred crosier.
    Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door.
    Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Police are searching for a crook who pilfered an elderly woman’s purse from her pew at a church in Brooklyn, cops said Friday.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Tax professionals are once again warned that they're being targeted by crooks and con artists.
    Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
  • 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.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • An ambitious new effort to reframe the U.S. approach to climate is taking a sledgehammer to shibboleths on the left and the right.
    Ben Geman, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Doing it with the ‘sledgehammer’ of a larger Tariff than 1930′s Smoot-Hawley, was bound to cause Turmoil in stocks, bonds, credit and commodities.
    Fred Imbert, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But instead of controlling destructive sugar cane beetle populations, the amphibians quickly became their own ecological catastrophe.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Another insect flagged in the report was the mountain pine beetle, which has been building populations along Colorado’s Front Rage and in other parts of the state.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Walking stick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walking%20stick. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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