as in to pierce
to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object
stabbed the pesky leaf with the tines of the rake
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Recent Examples of stab
Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
There is stabbing and shooting before Derringer and Clarke parachute out of the flaming plane together.
—Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
Officers responded around 5 a.m. and found a man with stab wounds, according to Woodland Police Department spokesperson Sgt.
—Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2025
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Verb
An early morning stabbing sent a man to the hospital, according to Miami Police.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
There is stabbing and shooting before Derringer and Clarke parachute out of the flaming plane together.
—Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
Noun
He was discovered lying face down on his bed covered in a blanket with trauma and what appeared to be a stab wound to his back, police source said.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
Officers responded around 5 a.m. and found a man with stab wounds, according to Woodland Police Department spokesperson Sgt.
—Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2025
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She was found on the ground near the lifeguard stand with an umbrella stake that had pierced the front of her left shoulder and was sticking out the back of her arm by about 1 foot, Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy told ABC News.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
25 June 2025
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The scepter pierced the ground of the Huanacaure mountain, and so rose the glimmering empire of Cuzco.—
Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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Agudelo was transferred to Elmhurst Hospital where she was treated for numerous skull fractures, a puncture wound to her temple and multiple abrasions, according to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
18 June 2025
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The Zainichi documentary filmmaker Park Soo-nam interviewed Korean hibakusha who subsequently arrived in Japan to receive specialized care—for puncture wounds, missing eyes—forty years after the fact.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Brooks is featured throughout the 2024 documentary Remembering Gene Wilder and talks about his attempts to help Wilder following his Alzheimer's diagnosis.—
Alex Apatoff,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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The injunctions played a key role in attempts to block immigration enforcement, including high profile deportations of TdA members.—
Bethany Blankley,
The Washington Examiner,
28 June 2025
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Nearly 150 people were jabbed with syringes during a street music festival in France, the country’s interior ministry said, adding that authorities had arrested at least 12 suspects.—
Astha Rajvanshi,
NBC news,
24 June 2025
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The sequence was designed to mimic a human yawn, but one could be forgiven for thinking the fleshy android had just been unpleasantly jabbed with something sharp.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
5 June 2025
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Pittsburgh now has arguably the best 1-2 punch at tight end in the NFL in Smith and Penn State alum Pat Friermuth.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Vega opted to press, but landed constant clean punches and was unable to connect meaningful combinations that would turn the tide of the fight.—
Jad El Reda,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2025
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The natural chemistry between the two appealing lead actors makes their disagreements as believable as the magnetic force that keeps coaxing them to give it another try.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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Perhaps there are statistics from New York to suggest Connecticut towns give it a try.—
Raj Dodani,
Hartford Courant,
24 June 2025
Verb
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Since its Sundance debut, the film has played many festivals, from Cannes to Independent Film Festival Boston, which picked Sorry, Baby as the capstone for this year’s edition of the fest.—
Andy Crump,
Time,
26 June 2025
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These kids would be walking around down the road and the F.B.I. would pick them up and take them down to the jail to be interrogated, then tell them to walk home.—
Nick Estes,
New Yorker,
26 June 2025
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Resist the urge to stick exclusively with people from the same background who all see the world the same way.—
Robert E. Siegel,
CNBC,
26 June 2025
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Courts can’t stick their heads in the sand to an obvious way that a new technology might severely harm the incentive to create, just because the issue has not come up before.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
26 June 2025
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“Stab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stab. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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