axe

Example Sentences

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Still, this could reverse if hiring slows or jobs face the axe due to lingering uncertainty, while the ECB already expects wage growth to cool this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

The carmaker is struggling with Chinese competition, US tariffs and patchy demand for electric vehicles, and already has plans to axe 50,000 jobs across all its brands in Germany by 2030.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Finally, things get going with a funeral — I won’t say whose, only that the death makes a fitting twist for an industry already getting the axe.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

A justice system in which individual members wield the axe against fellow members with the threat of forced expulsion votes is not ideal.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

Oslak handed him his sleeping-sack and waterskin, Renn his axe, quiver and bow.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver