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Recent Examples of gavel
The Laney era, and the ones that continued through Phelan's four years with the gavel, would change a troubled trend for the Texas speakership.
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John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Dec. 2024
Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty At around 3 am on Sunday morning, in a drained plenary, the gavel slammed to bring COP29 to a close.
—Antonio Piemontese, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2024
Barker brought the gavel down for a hammer price of $5.2 million to wild applause.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
With the speaker's gavel in his hand starting in January, Hall will decide which bills can come to the floor for consideration and make legislative committee assignments.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2024
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John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Dec. 2024
Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty At around 3 am on Sunday morning, in a drained plenary, the gavel slammed to bring COP29 to a close.
—Antonio Piemontese, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2024
Barker brought the gavel down for a hammer price of $5.2 million to wild applause.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
With the speaker's gavel in his hand starting in January, Hall will decide which bills can come to the floor for consideration and make legislative committee assignments.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gavel
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Many people have yet to learn that an industrial factory outside of Boston designs, casts, blasts, rolls, hammers, buffs and tests at least a million Zildjian cymbals a year.Brittney Melton, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
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Their heads appeared to have been bashed in with a hammer that lay near the bodies.Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
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The precursor of the xylophone and marimba, a balafon is made by carefully cutting 21 wooden slats into different lengths, fixing them atop hallow calabashes, and striking them with mallets wound with the gum and sap of a rubber tree.Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
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Walker showed me a video of the fingers surviving blows from a mallet.James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Three of the crew jumped out of the car and, yet again, used sledgehammers and hammers, to get into a display case.Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
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One of the workers took out a sledgehammer and smashed it.Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
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Hard freezes, ice, and snow will damage or break canes, making plants more susceptible to pests and disease.Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2024
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The age this particular persona is supposed to represent remains ambiguous in the scene, but the Jackal uses a cane and maintains a sense of frailty in his body, both of which contribute to another visual iteration of geriatric Redmayne.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
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Pelosi has remained a major political force in the Democratic Party even after handing the Democratic baton in the House to Brooklyn Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who recently won a second two-year term as minority leader.Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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Police were able to view surveillance footage from the hospital that showed a man wearing a police-style belt that included a firearm, three magazines, a baton, medical kit and pouches for handcuffs and O.C. spray, according to the warrant affidavit.Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Gavel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gavel. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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