saber

variants or sabre

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Recent Examples of saber But fans quickly spotted that, despite the saber in hand, the president's galactic depiction appeared to have more in common with Darth Vader than Obi-Wan Kenobi. Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 4 May 2025 It’s been a wild few weeks in the stock market as investors have digested news of the installation and pause of new tariff policies, ebbing and flowing trade wars and saber rattling between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 29 Apr. 2025 Both sabers' Amazon reviews are similarly positive. Chris McMullen, Space.com, 11 July 2025 The saber is in good condition, although the blade is slightly blunted and the original mother-of-pearl plates are re-glued, per the auction house. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for saber
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Noun
  • With fire and broadsword came pestilence, in the form of a sickness called Morrisania fever, which carried off many Refugees.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • In 2019, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas stabbed the balloon of sky-high expectations of his candidacy with a broadsword of a meltdown in Miami.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Although scaled down in cast and production size to fit the 194-seat Solana Beach theater, this rollicking comedy has lost none of it rapier wit and sass.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2025
  • After signing for Liverpool, the rapier striker impressed on her debut season in the Women’s Super League.
    Asif Burhan, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • As the stress builds with each successive rep, the scimitars swing loose, missing him.
    Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025
  • In contrast to most Final Destination deaths, in which any number of innocuous objects could, and often do, possess the potential for danger, there’s only one in Lewis’s case that’s repeatedly emphasized — two scimitars hanging on the gym wall above him.
    Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Noun
  • That season’s Pirates of the High Seas & Renaissance Fest is a local favorite, with sword fights, fire performers, and mermaids drawing families and fantasy lovers to the shore.
    Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The action is at at best competent but uninspired, and at worst (such as a sword fight toward the end) choppy and nauseating.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Saber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saber. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.

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