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The bill turned out to be part of an elaborate FBI sting that resulted in 14 legislators, lobbyists and others being sent to prison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The fifth episode’s title, “Riches of Embarrassment,” is derived from a halftime rallying speech Ted delivers to soften the sting of Alice calling their first-half performance embarrassing.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

U.S. stocks rose after comments from a Federal Reserve official took the sting out of rising oil prices by suppressing Treasury yields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Plus, Canadian honey producers are feeling the sting; this week’s earnings lineup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

When those suckers sting you, it’s like getting stabbed by fire.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

The fact that Patel has no criminal record and is not required to be on probation stings for San Mateo County Dist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

“But it still stings, knowing how much those were.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The whole business was entirely in keeping with the season, the twists and turns and stings in the tail.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

It still stings, more than 30 years later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

“And as much as your name-calling stings my heart, it would sting so much more if I was, in fact, a great black-backed gull and NOT a musk ox!”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!"

From Time Magazine Archive

It was at least a fathom lang, And tapered, at the end a stang Like harpoon dart or arrow head, Glittering and gleaming fiery red.

From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Violet Flint

O. N. a in originally close syllable > æ, written a: anger, hansell, apert, ban, blabber, slak, cast, chaff, dash, dram, bang, fang, stang, lack, etc.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

My curse upon your venom'd stang, That shoots my tortur'd gums alang, An' thro' my lug gies mony a twang, Wi' gnawing vengeance, Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang, Like racking engines!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

"The Lord has taken away the stang of pain out of my life," she said.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The auto industry in recent years has been stung by supply chain disruptions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

But please do not do this if you have allergies, or are likely to get stung.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Though stung, physically and emotionally, Sara carries on with a trip to the Devil’s Mouth caves because her recently deceased father visited them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

If symptoms because more severe or a sensitive part of body has been stung, seek medical help.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

“I left the horses back in the woods, where they wouldn’t get stung, and then I chopped the tree down and split it open.”

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

However, nearly all of that pattern can be traced to one particular group: the aculeate Hymenoptera, which includes stinging wasps, bees and ants.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

"They are not actively stinging, it is just when anything touches their tentacles as they are moving through the water, regardless of what it is."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Symptoms included stinging eyes, head pain, lung problems and stomach ailments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

They sailed through the air as the river churned and wailed below them, splashing Annabeth’s bare ankles with stinging brine.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan