hatchet
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A California couple attacked by a bear outside their eastern Sierra Nevada home have survived the encounter after fighting off the animal with a water bottle and a hatchet, authorities said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Wang delivered spectacularly, becoming the leader’s indispensable hatchet man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
And is it finally time for England to bury the hatchet with Ollie Robinson?
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
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
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
Alan recalls exposed wooden beams that were notched with hatchets to achieve a hand-cut look, the original embossed-leather wallpaper and the solid two-inch oak front door that “took a lot of work” to open.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
The smugglers had placed the radio and hatchets there to help the migrants call for help and break out of the trailer should they run into trouble.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Wherever we went looking for food, we heard the sounds of hatchets and saws.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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