as in road
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
Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
There's an amazing diversity of native fish native to try, including Regina carp, eel, tench, and pike.
—Gary Portuesi, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2024
Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
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Noun
From faster sidewalk projects to safer pikes, Walk Bike Nashville Executive Director Meredith Montgomery said the group is excited for the changes to come.
—Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
There's an amazing diversity of native fish native to try, including Regina carp, eel, tench, and pike.
—Gary Portuesi, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 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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Becoming Queen Zulu Amid her groundbreaking work in Louisiana, Macias was unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight in a different arena: Mardi Gras.Javier Hasse, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Threat level: When elevators are out of order, people who are unable to take the stairs or have difficulty doing so are thrust into a crisis.Nathan Bomey, Axios, 5 Jan. 2025
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And then also reducing the amount of surface coverage on the band itself by also removing and perforating.Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
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Both Lowe's and HGTV recommend a scoring tool or sandpaper to perforate the paper slightly so the water solution has easier access to the adhesive.Anna Kaufman, The Tennessean, 20 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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The victim was knifed in the chest inside the home on E. 138th St. near Brook Ave.Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Police last week arrested Rivera, a 51-year-old homeless man, for allegedly fatally knifing three people in separate Manhattan stabbings on Nov. 18.Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2024
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The nature of Trump and White’s relationship is unique, especially in a second term riddled with presidential friends and familiar faces, as White appears to be one of the few people in his inner circle who is not jockeying for a cabinet seat or personal advancement.Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
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Detroit has been riddled by injuries all season, with its secondary hit hard in particular.Andrew Greif, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025
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The previous night, Audra McDonald hugged her during a scene and one of the many bobby pins in Woods’s wig pricked her head, making her bleed.Dina Litovsky, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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The first lancet pricked my skin with alarming precision.David Oliver, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Pike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pike. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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