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

A response was sorely needed and the Newcastle head coach attempted to jolt his side by wielding the axe.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

And these men were largely not actually given the public axe, and not made to endure the resulting public humiliation.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

Gimli the dwarf alone wore openly a short shirt of steel-rings, for dwarves make light of burdens; and in his belt was a broad-bladed axe.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien