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[stab] / stæb /




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Now let me take a stab at translating what it found:

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

"When people have been loyal to you, you never stab them in the back."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Depending on the species, chelicerae can function as pincers or fangs that grip, pierce, or stab prey.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

In “Disclosure Day,” he takes another stab at demonstrating that there is no limit to the universe’s wonders.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

We jumped apart like we’d been electrocuted, and I felt a stab of fear as I saw my envelope still grasped tightly in Elliot’s sweaty hand.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

“If you have a friend that stabs you in the back, that’s the way it was with what I had been taught about history,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

“Tell me who’s to blame — is it the people or myself?” she wonders against the icy synth stabs of the title track.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Certainly he and his team have given it their all; the time they’ve put in and their stabs at various compromises have been impressive.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2024

A low ball in the right is met by Gabriel Sara, who stabs home at the near post.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2024

Pain stabs through me as everything I am made of collapses, my entire world dismantled in a moment.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

On his June 2026 song “We Know the Truth,” he rejected allegations connecting him to the killing and said he learned after arriving to perform at the festival that someone had been stabbed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

The Sheriff’s Department did not make clear whether the deputy who was stabbed also shot the suspect.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 21, 2026

Above all, we learn our lessons when we make misjudgments rather than claim we have been stabbed in the back.

From The Wall Street Journal May 25, 2026

The prime minister has been heckled during a visit to Golders Green, the north London suburb where two Jewish men were stabbed on Wednesday.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

Nurse Beverly stabbed her knitting needles into her ball of yarn.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Those faulty messages can produce shooting, stabbing or burning sensations.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

The Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request on June 2 for VA Police records of the hallway death and the stabbing.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

U.K. officials have rebuffed the criticism, with Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy pointing out that the attacker was British and saying the stabbing had nothing to do with immigration.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Australia's e-regulator has previously clashed with X, including over its world-leading ban on social media for under-16s and its refusal to remove videos of a stabbing that took place in a Sydney church.

From BBC May 21, 2026

Minutes previously, Harry had plunged his hand into this mulch, experienced a stabbing pain in the fourth finger of his right hand, and withdrawn it to see a lot of blood.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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