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to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object
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Recent Examples of stabbing
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
26 June 2026
Harrison Jamal Greer, 54, is charged with murder after allegedly stabbing and killing a man.
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Briauna Brown,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Coincidentally, the American Hustle star ran into the stabbing victim a year later while eating in a restaurant.
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Clare Fisher,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
The man accused of stabbing and killing 81-year-old actor James Handy is not fit to stand trial, a judge has ruled.
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Liza Esquibias,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Just outside the capital Manila in the province of Cavite, two stabbing incidents in two separate schools happened this month, with an 18-year-old suspect in one case and a 14-year-old in the other.
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Chad De Guzman,
Time,
23 June 2026
He was tried, convicted and sentenced to 35 years behind bars earlier this month for stabbing and killing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas.
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Kelsie Cairns,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2026
He was sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for manslaughter, after fatally stabbing a man during a fight.
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Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
19 June 2026
The killer wanted for stabbing a father of three to death at a Brooklyn bodega bought a cup of coffee inside before throwing it in the victim’s face in the fight leading up to the slay, shocking video shows.
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Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
22 Dec. 2024
Verb
Ditto for the subsequent scene of young Santa stabbing her mother to death.
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Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
26 June 2026
Harrison Jamal Greer, 54, is charged with murder after allegedly stabbing and killing a man.
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Briauna Brown,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Coincidentally, the American Hustle star ran into the stabbing victim a year later while eating in a restaurant.
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Clare Fisher,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
The man accused of stabbing and killing 81-year-old actor James Handy is not fit to stand trial, a judge has ruled.
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Liza Esquibias,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Just outside the capital Manila in the province of Cavite, two stabbing incidents in two separate schools happened this month, with an 18-year-old suspect in one case and a 14-year-old in the other.
—
Chad De Guzman,
Time,
23 June 2026
He was tried, convicted and sentenced to 35 years behind bars earlier this month for stabbing and killing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas.
—
Kelsie Cairns,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2026
He was sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for manslaughter, after fatally stabbing a man during a fight.
—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
19 June 2026
The killer wanted for stabbing a father of three to death at a Brooklyn bodega bought a cup of coffee inside before throwing it in the victim’s face in the fight leading up to the slay, shocking video shows.
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Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
22 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stabbing
Adjective
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Still, the glimpses of freedom Clark offers are all the more piercing for their rarity.
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The ping of pickleball play produces a uniquely piercing and repetitive sound that has led to contentious lawsuits and controversies across the entire country, including just north in Fox Point, as the sport has rapidly grown in popularity over the last few years.
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The audience groaned, while Vergara and Mel B screamed for Strange to stop jabbing at his partner through the box.
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The threats just keep jabbing at America’s borders.
Adjective
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Mulligan delivers lacerating fragility, while Isaac turns Josh’s accommodating nature into a pathology, but both characters are littered with backstory details that Beef leaves hanging.
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The same could be said for Howe’s lacerating self-flagellation afterwards.
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As Molloy gradually succeeds in puncturing Lestat’s aloof, arrogant outer shell, his sound correspondingly shifts from assaultive punk to more contemplative ballads.
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Better known by her pseudonymous social media handle Jerry Gogosian, Helphenstein left behind a complicated legacy, puncturing art world pieties with both satirical and serious memes and occasionally making inflammatory statements.
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Across Washington and Oregon, jagged walls of blackberry brambles choke out nearly every hiking trail, highway shoulder, and vacant lot in the region.
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Why does Orange County have so many families living on the jagged edges of the local economy?
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Its name comes from the fact that the fruit usually ripens and is ready for picking around this time of year.
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Callihan had trouble picking it up, allowing McCarthy to race around the bases and beat the relay throw home.
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No other airline has plans to compete with the carrier, sticking instead to traditional one-stop gateways, like Dubai, Los Angeles, or Singapore.
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Those who cannot twerk usually fall back on sticking their tongues down each other’s throats, because this is Love Island, after all.
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“Stabbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stabbing. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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