shiv

Example Sentences

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This feels like a shiv aimed at Cassidy: The website undermines the claim that vaccines don’t cause autism and says the language remains only because of the promise Kennedy gave to Cassidy and no other.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Sharp as a shiv but wickedly playful, Nick Harkaway's near-future noir sends Cal Sounder, an all too human detective, into the realm of literal giants.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

Best known from his many film, television and voice-over performances as a twinkling human Yoda, he writes himself into his plays as a schlump concealing a shiv.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021

“There are leaks and then there are people using the press to shiv each other in the ribs,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2017

On Fox News that same morning, Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to the president, described the leaks that Scaramucci was ranting about as “people using the press to shiv each other in the ribs.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2017