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a straight sword that has a narrow blade with sharp edges
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Recent Examples of rapier
Some of his favorites include a Spanish cup-hilt rapier, a defensive left-hand dagger from the 15th century, and a Napoleonic cavalry saber.
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
Guy Branum is a rapier wit, Lisa Gilroy is an improv beast, and Marcella Arguello is always the coolest person in the room.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
No one bothered to do the math, however, because Bentsen destroyed Quayle’s point with a rapier thrust.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
Like the introductory rivalry scene in which Cyrano’s rapier wit and rapier skills humiliate a celebrated theater ham just to win the flighty Roxanne’s attention, Wright aims to impress, but his flamboyance and foundering romanticism miss the mark.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
Guy Branum is a rapier wit, Lisa Gilroy is an improv beast, and Marcella Arguello is always the coolest person in the room.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
No one bothered to do the math, however, because Bentsen destroyed Quayle’s point with a rapier thrust.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
Like the introductory rivalry scene in which Cyrano’s rapier wit and rapier skills humiliate a celebrated theater ham just to win the flighty Roxanne’s attention, Wright aims to impress, but his flamboyance and foundering romanticism miss the mark.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rapier
Noun
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There are a few tie-down loops in the load bay to secure loads, and a full-height steel bulkhead protects the cabin from loose items.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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The company, founded in 1926, originally made farm equipment and later steel products for the coal-mining and petrochemical industries.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 May 2025
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For now, Trump’s saber rattling has settled down to a 90-day, across-the-board tariff of 10 percent for most countries (with the notable exception of China), but even that can quickly become a surcharge of many thousands of dollars.—
Will Peischel,
Curbed,
30 Apr. 2025
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Washington must maintain its resolve in the face of Putin’s nuclear saber rattling, push the Russian economy to the precipice, and help Kyiv achieve the battlefield successes necessary to force Moscow to negotiate.—
Alexander Vindman,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The man didn’t threaten anyone with the knife and soon left.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
13 May 2025
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Apple is not legally required to re-admit Fortnite, but the questions now are whether Apple is going to nitpick some specific thing to deny the app that caused all this, or whether Fortnite has somehow pushed the bounds of the results of the case to twist the knife even further.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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“Rapier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapier. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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