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hatchet

[hach-it] / ˈhætʃ ɪt /
NOUN
ax
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No media hatchet man could come up with a more damaging word to describe what happened out there.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

While a pair of lawsuits fractured their relationship between 2021 and 2023, IBM and GlobalFoundries have since buried the hatchet.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Wang delivered spectacularly, becoming the leader’s indispensable hatchet man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Legendary rivals Ozzy Lusth and Benjamin “Coach” Wade appeared to bury the hatchet, only for their conflict to reignite soon after.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

Make a staff, he thought, or a lance, and save the hatchet.

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

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

The sound of hatchets resonates across the field: thwack, thwack, thwack.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

This is perhaps why the title of Aron’s book is taken from Carry Nation, the 19th-century temperance crusader who took hatchets to bar tops and greeted bartenders as “destroyers of men’s souls.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2020

They leave with some colorful glass beads, mirrors, bells, needles, pins, several pieces of copper, and three hatchets.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone


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