as in baton
a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment
in those days corporal punishment was common, and the cane was regarded as another one of the schoolmaster's educational tools
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Recent Examples of cane
Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2024
The archway, sometimes created with a variety of materials — such as flowers, sugar cane or corn — signifies a doorway for souls to find their way to us.
—Paola Briseño-Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Feb. 2024
Avoid textured tables with rattan, raffia, or caning, and look for an easy-to-wipe surface.
—Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2024
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Noun
His would-be Uber driver refused to give him a ride upon seeing his white cane.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2024
The archway, sometimes created with a variety of materials — such as flowers, sugar cane or corn — signifies a doorway for souls to find their way to us.
—Paola Briseño-Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Verb
One of my favorite pieces of furniture in my childhood home was a wooden and metal rocking chair that had caning details.
—Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Feb. 2024
Avoid textured tables with rattan, raffia, or caning, and look for an easy-to-wipe surface.
—Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2024
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Blurry lacks a central character, instead letting the narrative flow from person to person, couple to couple, like a passed baton made up of grace and light.The Week US, theweek, 19 Nov. 2024
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Evans then allegedly turned the gun on the man, firing several shots as the victim attempted to swat away his gun with the baton.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Almost from the start, Dharavi was defined by its industries: from the traditional potters of Gujarat who began arriving in the late 1800s, to leather tanners from Tamil Nadu and embroidery workers from Uttar Pradesh.Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 June 2024
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Look to leather knee-high pairs from Jimmy Choo, Isabel Marant, Khaite, and & Other Stories for a similar version of the model-off-duty style.Laura Jackson, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2022
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The latest advertising venture to hit the city: LED boxes strapped to the back of delivery scooters.Martin Vassolo, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
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Besides the daily recording of blood pressure and weight measurements, the programme relies chiefly on a midday rest taken with a warm water bottle strapped to the stomach (to stimulate liver function) and the injunction to take gentle exercise.Bill Prince, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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The Speccie’s star columnist is the rudest man in Christendom, the Godzilla of contumely, an all-time non-sufferer of fools who horsewhips his targets the way Hunter S. Thompson and Christopher Hitchens once did.Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 Apr. 2020
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In reality, Watson wasn’t a bar fighter or famous for horsewhipping cowboys.Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
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Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures.Timothy Ryback, TIME, 26 Apr. 2024
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Before long, fairs had such attractions as cudgelling bouts, bearbaiting, and something called gouging.Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
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Pop stars being badasses, as ever, but expressing doubt, and doing it without the flagellating self-destruction that might have come with an early iteration.Susannah Felts, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2023
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For Logan, none of these self-flagellating exercises mattered.Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
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Sylvia scourges herself with an intensity that would make hairshirted flagellants seem soft.Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
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Social instability and post-pandemic economic pressures fueled surges in migration across the world. 2023 will probably be the hottest year on record, with heat waves scourging every continent, accompanied by other extreme climactic events.Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
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At another Trump barn burner, the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson digressed into a lengthy pornographic reverie about a father spanking his daughter.Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter Fans of American Horror Story: Asylum won’t be too scandalized by the cut spanking scene — beyond being a plausible incident, spanking was a common occurrence in the show’s sophomore outing.Shania Russell, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Cane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cane. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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