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hatchet

[hach-it] / ˈhætʃ ɪt /
NOUN
ax
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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

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

“Well — but it’s happening. This hatchet is falling on the heads of employees all across the nation, and you’re not even prepared to address whether that’s legal, even though that’s what this motion challenges?”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2025

And catfish have mustaches for some reason, which is just plain weird finally, Mary Alice took the rusty hatchet out of my hand.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

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

Later in the day, McNally acknowledged Corden’s “gracious” mea culpa, and once again, all hatchets seemed buried.

From Washington Post Oct. 25, 2022

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

Yet despite many statements over the years that old hatchets have been buried — the intraband litigation file goes back decades — the Beach Boys are not quite united.

From New York Times Sep. 2, 2021

There were only a few sailors guarding the cargo, and they quickly decided that tangoing with a pack of angry colonists with hatchets was a bad idea and got out of the way.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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