axes
1 Americannoun
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Example Sentences
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One location stood out due to the discovery of about 80 grooved stone axes, which were used to break down and process ore.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
In a field where buzzards were flying overhead, they used metal probes and pick axes and shovels in their search for remains.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
The towering ambition of the men remaking the landscape with saws and axes, and the men, like Grainier, who were somehow pulled through that current.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
That advice included “find a private cadre of advisers who have no axes to grind” and “call your mom.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
At the very center of the coordinate system—where the two axes cross—sits a zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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