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After the assault occurred about 8 a.m., the 20-year-old suspect dropped the pickax and ran from City Lions Park to the Johnny Cash Trail nearby, The Folsom Police Department said in a news release Friday that was posted on social media.
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Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2024
If you’re tempted to be pleased by the pickax — to regard it as a fine interplay of public art and public life — ruangrupa, an artists’ collective from Indonesia, will gladly disillusion you.
—New York Times, 9 June 2022
But in August 1974, Scheer unveiled a new/old name and a logo: a bearded cartoon miner holding a pickax in one hand and a basketball in the other.
—John Branch, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
Or from slitting their throats, sticking his pickax in their sternum, or attaching them to a plummeting megaton bomb.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
Aatami merely looks at them, points his pickax like the Grim Reaper with his scythe and grunts.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
And, of course, his pickax.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
Days before the body of a New Jersey teacher was found in a shallow grave, authorities impounded a car linked to her former partner that had a pickax, a shovel and a bloodstained rope inside it, according to court documents released Wednesday.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
Activists in green overalls used a pickax to dig holes in the road near the farmhouse, while others carried steel girders and concrete to block vehicles.
—Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2024
If you’re tempted to be pleased by the pickax — to regard it as a fine interplay of public art and public life — ruangrupa, an artists’ collective from Indonesia, will gladly disillusion you.
—New York Times, 9 June 2022
But in August 1974, Scheer unveiled a new/old name and a logo: a bearded cartoon miner holding a pickax in one hand and a basketball in the other.
—John Branch, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
Or from slitting their throats, sticking his pickax in their sternum, or attaching them to a plummeting megaton bomb.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
Aatami merely looks at them, points his pickax like the Grim Reaper with his scythe and grunts.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
And, of course, his pickax.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
Days before the body of a New Jersey teacher was found in a shallow grave, authorities impounded a car linked to her former partner that had a pickax, a shovel and a bloodstained rope inside it, according to court documents released Wednesday.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
Activists in green overalls used a pickax to dig holes in the road near the farmhouse, while others carried steel girders and concrete to block vehicles.
—Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
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“Pickax.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pickax. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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pickax
noun
pick·ax
ˈpik-ˌaks 
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