noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
take
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Living through the post-Darwinian debates, he invariably took up the cudgels on behalf of scientific rationalism.
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She would not take up the cudgels of such a battle.
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In the 1980s Jacques Kerchache, a former dealer, collector and connoisseur of primitive art, took up the cudgels again.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dostoevsky had no use for the two peasants or for the hood and the cudgel , but he wanted the cap.
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Five of us, and a dozen of them, with cudgels and daggers, and two archers among them.
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Living through the post-Darwinian debates, he invariably took up the cudgels on behalf of scientific rationalism.
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She would not take up the cudgels of such a battle.
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Suddenly I was jumping, yelling out as the flagstone beat my feet like a cudgel or stone cricket bat.
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The rest of you in Congress, put down your cudgels of sincerity and declare a cease-fire with the public.