hatchet
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The burying of the hatchet is a great relief for Edwards, who was troubled by the tension between his colleagues during their time on “Good Day L.A.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Most famously, Parson Weems invented from whole cloth the story about young Washington taking a hatchet to his father’s cherry tree, then confessing to it.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026
The government took a hatchet to its payrolls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Tottenham were still far too slick for Copenhagen and Van de Ven buried the hatchet in the 64th minute.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025
And on his belt, somehow still there, the hatchet his mother had given him.
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 guests are a bundle of nerves when they arrive, still reeling from Logan’s death and their subsequent hurried, haphazard burying of various hatchets.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
Later in the day, McNally acknowledged Corden’s “gracious” mea culpa, and once again, all hatchets seemed buried.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
When agents stopped a truck going through a Border Patrol highway checkpoint in Texas earlier this month they found 70 illegal immigrants in the semi-trailer — and walkie-talkie and two hatchets.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Whereupon a mile and a half of blundering fishermen went berserk, jumping into the stream and charging after the prey with everything except hatchets and hand grenades.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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