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Regardless, the statement amounted to unusual nuclear sabre rattling.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

Mr Gilliver moves towards the camera, swooshing his light sabre before disappearing down the trap door.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024

"Unlocking the secrets of sabre tooth evolution not only enriches our understanding of the Earth's past, but also documents the mechanisms leading to evolutionary convergence," says Professor Valentin Fischer, Director of the EDDyLab at ULiège.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024

For many years, he has been among the best in the Americas in foil and sabre.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024

There are lots of girls carrying all kinds of blades: foil, epee, sabre.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Even Wellington's self hath averred   Thou art yet but half sabred and hung, And I loved him the more when I heard   Such tenderness fall from his tongue.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

She faced death, as women mostly do, bravely and even gayly, racked slowly to unconsciousness but yielding only to violence, as a soldier sabred in battle.

From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch

The Russian hussars of Ysum were sabred and overthrown at Kelm.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur

Many more than a hundred sabred gentlemen pressed round to "do themselves the honor," as they expressed it, of paying Cunningham a compliment.

From Rung Ho! by Talbot Mundy

This letter will explain how, in Thebais, Some discontents required the sabred hand Of Abulkassen.

From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Page 453, line 40, read "sabring" for "sobering."

From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert

If I were to march into Moldavia," a Rumanian was telling me, "against the enemies of Austria, I would have to begin by sabring all the Moldavian peasants, who are crying, 'Down with Austria!'

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various

Half a dozen huzzaing and sabring troopers saw the three and shouted to others nearer yet.

From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston