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broomstick

[broom-stik, broom-] / ˈbrumˌstɪk, ˈbrʊm- /






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Fahmy painted a Keith Haring-style black-and-white mural at the top of the stairs and continued onto the second-floor walls using a paintbrush taped to a broomstick.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

To disguise the swelling caused by hours of handshaking, Volk suggested Lincoln grasp a sawed-off broomstick.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

I was the first person to play Quidditch on a broomstick.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

It’s friendly magic, the sort that lets you ride around on a broomstick instead of the kind that splits your soul into a bunch of little pieces.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025

Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life, because his grandmother had never let him near one.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling




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