as in needle
a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin
the syringe the nurse was leveling at my arm looked to me to be at least 10 inches long
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Recent Examples of syringe
Video of the incident shows a man spraying an unidentified substance at Omar from a syringe.
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Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
In autonomous tests, the robot unscrews bottle caps, extracts individual pills from organizers despite occlusion, dispenses precise syringe volumes under variable resistance, and selects small metal parts from cluttered containers.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
Photos of the syringe, which fell when the man was tackled, show what appears to be a light-brown liquid inside.
—Michael Biesecker, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
The man then sprayed the politician's shirt with a syringe of an unknown, strong-smelling substance, according to C-SPAN footage.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
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Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
In autonomous tests, the robot unscrews bottle caps, extracts individual pills from organizers despite occlusion, dispenses precise syringe volumes under variable resistance, and selects small metal parts from cluttered containers.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
Photos of the syringe, which fell when the man was tackled, show what appears to be a light-brown liquid inside.
—Michael Biesecker, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
The man then sprayed the politician's shirt with a syringe of an unknown, strong-smelling substance, according to C-SPAN footage.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syringe
needle
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Trading Artemi Panarin, Vincent Trocheck and Carson Soucy alone may not bring back enough needle-movers to truly turn things around.—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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If the upper needles turn brown, dry, and drop, the cutting has failed.—
Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Syringe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syringe. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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