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hatchet

[hach-it] / ˈhætʃ ɪt /
NOUN
ax
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The government took a hatchet to its payrolls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Tottenham were still far too slick for Copenhagen and Van de Ven buried the hatchet in the 64th minute.

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

Noel and Liam Gallagher buried the hatchet to get back on stage for the first time in 16 years in Cardiff a week ago, and received enthusiastic reviews from ticket-holders and critics.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

Which doesn’t mean “Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,” is a hatchet job.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

She turned and scrambled up the outcroppings, picking up the hatchet that was to have been splitting kindling all this time.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt




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