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
Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
Sticking her double pike, Tiana burst into nearly immediate tears.
—Caroline Price, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
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Still coming down the pike are Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, a follow-up to a Best Picture winner; Jon M. Chu’s Wicked, an adaptation of the first half of the famed musical; and James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, a biopic of obscure Nobel laureate Robert Zimmerman.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
Sticking her double pike, Tiana burst into nearly immediate tears.
—Caroline Price, Forbes, 24 Sep. 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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This year, the day marks the 83rd anniversary of the surprise attack that thrust the U.S. into World War II. More than 2,400 American service men and women were killed in the early attack launched by Japan at the United States Navy Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
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France’s prime minister is expected to resign from his post after lawmakers passed a no-confidence measure against him and his Cabinet, likely thrusting the country into a period of political uncertainty.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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This condition occurs when an untreated ulcer perforates the lining of the bowel, creating an opening to another area of the body, Melmed explains.Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 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 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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Gabriel knifed through the Nittany Lions’ defensive eleven from the jump, opening the scoring with a highlight reel touchdown in Indianapolis.Kevin Dotson, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement Anthony Macias knifed through the line to block a punt at the goal line, and Max Magana recovered the ball in the end zone to give Pacifica a 14-6 lead late in the first quarter.Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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However, their legacy system, developed over a decade ago, was riddled with technical debt.Shyam Alok, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Federal data provided via a public records request was riddled with errors.Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
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Orthodox and Conservative Jews require converts to immerse themselves in a mikvah, a ritual bath, and expect male converts to undergo circumcision or, if they are already circumcised, to be pricked to draw a ritual drop of blood.Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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The alternative is finger-stick testing, pricking fingertips to draw drops of blood to check glucose levels, often multiple times a day.Meg Tirrell, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Pike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pike. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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