stylet

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Recent Examples of stylet The team explains how scientists can examine an octopus’ beak, stylets, and growth rings in the lab to determine how old the animal is. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024 Sulfur sprays and stylet oil fungicides will also reduce the spread of powdery mildew. Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023 The last stylet—the hypopharynx—drips mosquito saliva into the wound. John Sass, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023 The procedure involves using a slender surgical probe known as a stylet to guide a tube down the woman's throat, according to Dr. Hudman Hoo, a pulmonologist and the medical director of St. Anthony's Hospital's ICU ward in St. Petersburg, Florida. Randi Kaye and Travis Caldwell, CNN, 11 Sep. 2021 The respiratory therapist pulled out my stylet, inflated the tip balloon through its small port at the top, attached an Ambu bag to the open mouth of the endotracheal tube and pushed in liters of oxygen. Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stylet
Noun
  • Mind you, the entire infantry kit in those days didn't go far beyond a rifle, bayonet, canteen, mess tins, and an entrenching tool balanced with the odd hand grenade.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Security and prosperity proved strong enticements to accepting imperial rule, even if those benefits came at the point of a bayonet.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When Grimes rose up over Tre Mann and completed the rally with his dagger three, Joel Embiid sprinted off the bench with a huge smile on his face, and the entire bench joined him.
    Tony Jones, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Some 78 yards later, Brown had a touchdown that his quarterback and coach would call the dagger in a 42-17 unexpected laugher at KU.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This includes openly carrying the famous Jim Bowie knife, as well as daggers, dirks, throwing knives, stilettos, poniards, swords, machetes and spears.
    John Tufts, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • The bodkins were helpful tools that could double as hairpins.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Icke also occasionally cues up some Bob Dylan songs, chosen for their on-the-bodkin lyrics.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 30 June 2022
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
  • There are 10 speeds for nearly any task, and there are also 10 attachments available that transform your mixer into a pasta maker, a veggie cutter and more.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to guarding Doncic, Kuminga looked comfortable launching bombs from behind the arc against a porous Lakers defense while also creating space as a cutter when Green had the ball at the elbow.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bionca Ellis, 34, stole two knives from the Volunteers of America Thrift Store next to the Giant Eagle supermarket in North Olmsted on June 3, 2024, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The mother was about to load her groceries into her vehicle when Ellis ran at them with a knife, stabbing the toddler twice before walking away.
    Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This magical mani requires nails that are a little long and sharp, but without reaching stiletto status.
    Ana Serrano, Glamour, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Prada’s Statement Pump The modern pump isn’t just a three-inch stiletto any longer.
    Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Stylet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stylet. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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