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
But Larissa, a nurse always at the ready with syringe full of sedatives, is inflexible about Katie remaining at home.
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
No syringe was found at the scene.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in 2014 with a syringe in his arm and a lethal combination of heroin, cocaine, benzodiazepines and amphetamine in his system.
—Jack Hannah, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
Near a lookout offering sweeping views, Gerhardt Konig, 47 — upset about his wife's relationship with a coworker — tried to push her off the steep trail, bashed her head with a rock and attempted to stab her with a syringe, prosecutors said.
—ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
No syringe was found at the scene.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in 2014 with a syringe in his arm and a lethal combination of heroin, cocaine, benzodiazepines and amphetamine in his system.
—Jack Hannah, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
Near a lookout offering sweeping views, Gerhardt Konig, 47 — upset about his wife's relationship with a coworker — tried to push her off the steep trail, bashed her head with a rock and attempted to stab her with a syringe, prosecutors said.
—ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syringe
needle
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But Unikowsky maintains that to find a needle in the Google haystack, Google had to sift through hundreds of millions of accounts.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
27 Apr. 2026
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But an imperfect first law still moves the needle.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Syringe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syringe. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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