axes
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Example Sentences
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In a field where buzzards were flying overhead, they used metal probes and pick axes and shovels in their search for remains.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
That advice included “find a private cadre of advisers who have no axes to grind” and “call your mom.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
But there wasn’t much benefit in tracking sales of shovels, pick axes, and sifting pans in order to validate the bull case for the California Gold Rush.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
But Neil and the chrome hearts would also swap their axes for acoustic guitars.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025
The differences between those trajectories were stamped by continental differences in domesticable plants and animals, germs, times of settlement, orientation of continental axes, and ecological barriers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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