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a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
you can take the pike all the way to the city
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Recent Examples of pike
Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2024
Biles frequently bounds backward, or even falls, on her Yurchenko double pike, the most difficult vault in women’s gymnastics.
—Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
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Noun
So, for now, the Yurchenko double pike is on hiatus, perhaps to be performed again, but not by Biles.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2024
Biles frequently bounds backward, or even falls, on her Yurchenko double pike, the most difficult vault in women’s gymnastics.
—Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
Verb
Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands.
—Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
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There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
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And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
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Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.CNN, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
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Visitors can view a variety of media including textiles—such as Navajo artist D.Y. Begay’s Southwest landscape painting on wool—beadwork, sculpture, photography, film and even clothing attire such as beaded and quilled Louboutin shoes.Lily Katzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
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Absolute Technologies, which originally began as a small machine shop in Santa Fe Springs making service repairs for Textron’s Bell Helicopters, makes landing gears, thrust reverser cylinders, flight control pistons, load transfer components and assemblies.Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
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Between the lines: Any period of uncertainty could see the country thrust into a time of legal drama, paralyzed governance and overall distrust, as Axios' Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen reported.Adam Tamburin, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Those talons are going to perforate a colon with a swiftness, and no one wants to go to the emergency room with a gel tip stuck in the rectum.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 July 2024
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The medium-firm mattress is made with memory foam, which molds to the body and is perforated with tiny holes to keep the body cool throughout the night.Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
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The chat reportedly suggested the members had strong ties to the police force, which then brought police corruption into the multi-pronged scandal.Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2019
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Apparently, there's now a new twist on the classic shape, looking a little more modern with an oval center stone and spiky pronged diamonds surrounding it.Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 2 Aug. 2019
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Our 16-foot skiff knifed out of Winchester Bay, on the Oregon coast 200 miles south of Astoria, an hour before noon on June 23, 1964, with four aboard, headed for the salmon grounds outside the bar, the 40-horsepower outboard leaving a clean, white wake.Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
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After railing against Harper all season for her lack of moral compass, Eric has sold out more completely than his ex-mentee ever has, knifing his terminally ill friend Bill Adler (Trevor White) in the back in return for a $20 million buyout and indefinite unemployment.Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
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Burberry has been riddled with financial problems since the post-pandemic recovery of luxury spending, which has fallen flat and prompted multiple profit warnings in recent months.Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
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Traveling to Arrowhead Stadium is a Buccaneers team riddled with injuries.Steve Fini, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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In postwar California, the Red Light Bandit pricked a governor’s conscience.Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
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During this test, a healthcare provider pricks your skin with a small amount of an allergen.Daniel More, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2024
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“Pike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pike. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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