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Disney is preparing to ax as many as 1,000 positions in the next few weeks, The Wall Street Journal External link reported late Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

If U.S. regulators really don’t want the country’s biggest filmed content streamer to own HBO and Warner’s studios, then they’ll ax the Netflix deal.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026

The Senate, assuming senators can ax their way past treacherous ice demons and through the Capitol doors, expects to vote on the final few bills next week.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2026

For years a mixture of protocol and family ties made the monarchy reluctant to fully swing the ax on Andrew, royal experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

At suppertime he took his ax, felled a dandelion, opened a can of deviled ham, and had a light supper of ham and dandelion milk.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White

Sonomura’s style is volumetric; he dares himself to discover unexpected axes of movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

During the last amnesty in 2006, people handed over more than 12,500 blades to police without facing criminal charges - they included machetes, swords, meat cleavers, bayonets and axes.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

One location stood out due to the discovery of about 80 grooved stone axes, which were used to break down and process ore.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026

In some cases, horizontal placement of circles on the date axes is approximated to accommodate others within the same range.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

At the opposite extreme was its slow spread along north-south axes: at less than 0.5 miles per year, from Mexico northward to the U.S.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

A retirement-style benefit that was being axed will now continue through 2031, subject to a “baseline performance expectation,” according to an email to agents reviewed by the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

One of his projects, focused on adaptation to climate change, has already been axed, and he cannot hire any more PhD students, with a giant question mark over his funding.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Jose Mourinho's second spell at Stamford Bridge ended when he was axed in December 2015, seven months after winning the title, as they lay one point above the relegation zone.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

When Colbert announced last year that his show was being axed by CBS after this season, there were reports that the program was losing up to $50 million a year.

From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026

Scraper pain, not axed pain, so I reckoned I'd be able to walk.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Slate went as far as to consider axing air conditioning from the truck to keep costs in check.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week seemed to come the closest a Cabinet official has come to a Trump axing this term.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026

In the meantime, the domestic club game is in crisis with the Welsh Rugby Union keen on axing one of the four professional teams competing in the United Rugby Championship to save money.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

At the end of last month, Amazon announced it was axing 14,000 jobs, saying it needed to be "organised more leanly" to seize the opportunity provided by AI.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

Pa said, “All I’m axing is that you don’t send Zephariah alone with all that money. Let’s get someone else to ride ’longside him, someone we all trust.”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis