sting
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"My eyes have started to sting because of the dust from the burned debris flying around in the smoke," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
A potentially historic El Niño weather pattern may take some sting out of winter utility bills.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
The $160 seized in the sting was given to the task force as part of his plea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
A sting by the News of the World newspaper paid a middleman - cricket agent Mazhar Majeed - for details of three no-balls.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
I didn’t know why I was holding my breath because I knew that the old saying of how you could hold your breath and nothing would sting you was pure hogwash.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Pepsi gets only a small part of its sales from KFC, but the loss still stings.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
I am happy for friends and family who have homes, but it still stings.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Many people are scared of jellyfish due to the fear of painful stings and the creature's unpredictable nature in the water.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
Shampoo gets in my eyes and it stings, and my neck hurts from holding it stiffly over the basin.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!"
From Time Magazine Archive
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What, stang, stang-wut; what is that? stang ti-á? what are you doing? stang nis-chai?
From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by George Gibbs
In raptures sweet, this hour we meet, Wi' mutual love an' a' that; But for how lang the flie may stang, Let inclination law that.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Make, to, chai; what are you making? stang n's chai?
From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by George Gibbs
It's nayther for thy part, nor my part, That I ride the stang.
From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman
All of a sudden, Bass was a staggering champion lunging at a revived Raman, who swung and stung and ducked the way only a hungry up-and-comer can.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
I just had to buy a car, which stung, but every other spare dollar goes toward stacking.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
"Your biggest problem is if you swim into them. You don't want to get stung by a lion's mane."
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The auto industry in recent years has been stung by supply chain disruptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Sleet stung us as we reached the outside.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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His bigotry has prompted condemnation on the left and right, including a stinging rebuke on these pages from Karl Rove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Terry Strada, whose husband Tom Strada died in the Twin Towers, unleashed a stinging attack on Riyadh, accusing it of complicity in the attacks, and denouncing former presidents who were in attendance.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
His hand rests on his heart as he evangelizes her writing — a surprisingly tender moment of sentimentality from a comedian who has made a career out of stinging misanthropy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Finally, after what seemed like hours, he must have decided that there wasn’t anything in the hole worth stinging and buzzed on his way.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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