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AI may help people avoid the sting of social missteps, but the relief is temporary, Golden says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

He added, with sting as a resigning defence secretary, that "our adversaries do not follow timetables set by the Treasury."

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Aipa was the grandson of iconic shaper Ben Aipa, known for pioneering surfboard styles such as the sting and refining the design of the swallowtail in the 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

An Ashes triumph eluded Knight throughout her career, which must surely sting.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

A particularly brutal wind swept through and the Vanderbeekers didn’t bother turning their backs to avoid the sting on their cheeks.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

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

This can be caused by food, medicine or insect stings.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

But it is the case of what could have been, both domestically and in Europe, that stings.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

It still stings, more than 30 years later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

The tiny electric stings felt like a sleeping limb waking up.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The stang is of Saxon origin, and is practised in Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, for the purpose of exposing a kind of gyneocracy, or, the wife wearing the galligaskins.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 by Various

But for how lang the flie may stang, Let inclination law that.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

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

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

It curled and squirmed and gleamed, The stang it glowed, red-hot it seemed; Whate'er it touched it brunt and bristled, The very sod it scorched and frizzled.

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

Bunney, who said she has been stung a lot by jellyfish, compared a mild sting to that of a nettle.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Barry Callebaut, one of the world's biggest chocolate makers, signalled Thursday that chocoholics are starting to replenish their stocks after being stung by inflation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Some unavoidable costs still stung, though, like the $98 roundtrip NJ Transit fare to the stadium.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

The new affordability efforts are aimed at consumers who have less money in their pockets, stung by rising prices at the gasoline pump and the grocery store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

‘Good girl,’ she said in a way that reminded me of Mama so sharply it stung my eyes.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Jellyfish tentacles are lined with thousands of venom-filled stinging cells.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

His most stinging losses were arguably in cases that the court didn’t hear.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

The cathedral where Avraamiy usually holds services, decked with gold and brightly colored religious scenes, was filled with acrid smoke, stinging the rescuers’ eyes and throats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

I need to get out there pronto, but I feel tears stinging my eyes for the billionth time this evening.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller