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Recent Examples of cane
Noun
Editor’s tip: The formulation also has brightening mullein flower, smoothing ceramides, and a softening mix of sugar cane and lemon zest. Jenny Berg, Allure, 31 Dec. 2024 To use a rose cone: Remove dead and diseased canes. Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 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 See all Example Sentences for cane 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cane
Noun
  • In videos verified by CNN, dozens of protesters are seen confronting a wall of riot police outside the Pucheng Vocational Technical School, with some hurling batons and other objects towards the officers.
    Shawn Deng, CNN, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Zhang’s baton matched the second act’s edge-of-your-seat melodrama.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • Or does a rising star like Jacob Fatu get the proverbial rocket strapped to his back?
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Montgomery said contractors had also left rat poison strapped to a wooden beam under the house.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 13 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • In reality, Watson wasn’t a bar fighter or famous for horsewhipping cowboys.
    Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
Verb
  • 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
  • Before long, fairs had such attractions as cudgelling bouts, bearbaiting, and something called gouging.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
Verb
  • Stephens would do well to stop flagellating himself and the Never Trumpers and instead join democracy advocates in defending the rule of law in a dangerous new world.
    DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Sylvia scourges herself with an intensity that would make hairshirted flagellants seem soft.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
  • 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
Verb
  • While past methods of child discipline often included corporal punishments such as spanking, many of today's parents are interested in more gentle and positive methods.1 Experts suggests this is likely the right direction.
    Cynthia Hanson, Parents, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In 2014, he was charged with felony child abuse after using a switch to spank his then 4-year-old son, which resulted in a suspension.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Cane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cane. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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