ax
Example Sentences
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Everyone who’s had an ax to grind about Geno is piling on.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
If U.S. regulators really don’t want the country’s biggest filmed content streamer to own HBO and Warner’s studios, then they’ll ax the Netflix deal.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026
It has no ideological ax to grind, although it makes a persuasive case for the expansiveness of American poetry as a parallel to the definition of Americanness itself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Four films in, there are now as many “Naked Gun” features as there were live-aired episodes of “Police Squad!” before the network gave it the ax.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025
"So, do you want to go get the ax now?"
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
