saber

variants or sabre

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Recent Examples of saber Nowhere is this more evident than in Trump’s saber rattling about the international role of the U.S. dollar. Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2025 Even Trump and his choice for Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, are rattling their sabers and threatening to pull the broadcast licenses of networks that run programs or news stories the White House doesn’t like. Alex Cranz, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025 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 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 See All Example Sentences for saber
Recent Examples of Synonyms for saber
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
  • So, Namco filled out the roster with the likes of Astaroth, who wields a screen-filling axe, and Raphael, who opts for a paper-thin rapier.
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • After a rapier start of ten wins out of 11, the results have tailed off.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • More than 500 of them, in fact, from native whitetail deer to yaks, scimitar oryx, and water buffalo.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 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
  • Traces of the wooden hilt are still visible on the preserved sword.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2025
  • The medieval sword was given to a specialty conservation workshop for further preservation and analysis, Science in Poland said in a July 4 news release.
    Aspen Pflughoeft July 4, Miami Herald, 4 July 2025

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“Saber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saber. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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