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or sabre
as in broadsword
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Recent Examples of saber
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.
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Alexander Vindman, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2025
Donald Trump is rattling his coin purse, if not his saber, to add Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone to his domain.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2025
But the dire wolf is an actual real-world predator, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago after roaming North America for thousands of years before that, alongside saber tooth tigers and mastodons.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
And despite the saber rattling coming from the Trump administration, attempting to force the issue would pose major complications for two other top US priorities: migration and the economy.
—Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
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Alexander Vindman, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2025
Donald Trump is rattling his coin purse, if not his saber, to add Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone to his domain.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2025
But the dire wolf is an actual real-world predator, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago after roaming North America for thousands of years before that, alongside saber tooth tigers and mastodons.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
And despite the saber rattling coming from the Trump administration, attempting to force the issue would pose major complications for two other top US priorities: migration and the economy.
—Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saber
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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After a rapier start of ten wins out of 11, the results have tailed off.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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While the show allows a myriad of exciting and enticing props — like swords, animals and fire — they all must be approved by producers beforehand for safety purposes.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
24 June 2025
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In some cases, swords were tossed into bodies of water after their owners died.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 June 2025
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“Saber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saber. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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