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to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
rifled the desk drawer in search of the insurance policy
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Dan Mangan, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
The council passed a law earlier this year banning bump stocks, which are accessories that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly, like machine guns.
—Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2024
The De La Salle fielder then popped up and rifled a bullet over to first base to end the top of the fifth inning.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
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Noun
He was arrested on Sept. 15 after allegedly fleeing from a Secret Service agent who opened fire at him from Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach after spotting a rifle poking from a tree line.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
The council passed a law earlier this year banning bump stocks, which are accessories that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly, like machine guns.
—Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
Verb
What Goliath looks like when the stone rifled via David’s slingshot deals critical damage.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2024
The De La Salle fielder then popped up and rifled a bullet over to first base to end the top of the fifth inning.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
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During the investigation, officials last week said items were discovered missing from the campsite and identified them, including a shotgun, revolver, cooler and ax, and asked the public to be on the lookout for them.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Instead, the big new addition comes in the form of two new shotguns to play with.Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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With the restaurant industry buffeted by higher costs driven in part by rising minimum wages in California and other states, Miso is one of several tech startups betting more businesses will be searching for new ways to save money, reduce employee turnover and fill more orders.Queenie Wong Los Angeles Times (TNS), arkansasonline.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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After six weeks of searching, and using a tip from a confidential informant, the men’s bodies were found buried in an earthen dam, near where Mississippi’s power brokers were about to gather for the annual Neshoba County Fair.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Should that musket misfire, don’t look for the cleric.Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
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The town's population grew in the 1820s as a result of the lead mining boom, where the mine became one of the most productive in the region, manufacturing the musket balls used in the Civil War, according to the city's website.Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2024
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Prepare to make the cheese sauce by grating and combing the cheddar and Swiss cheeses.Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024
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Use fingers to massage the product into the scalp, then comb it through the hair.Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
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The vacuum works best when the grass or leaves are freshly raked.Sandi Schwartz, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2024
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Shedding light on other underpinnings, the forks are raked out slightly further to improve stability at faster speeds.New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2024
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My first rifle had been a flintlock that had been given to me by an old friend, Ed Wesson, the gunsmith.Outdoor Life, Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
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Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2018
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Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2018
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Colman is Edith Swan, a middle-aged church lady who still lives with her blunderbuss of a father (Timothy Spall) and mild-mannered mother (Gemma Jones) in a working-class neighborhood of Littlehampton.Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
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The State Department, in its blunderbuss way, wanted to open up a kind of détente with the citizens of Communist Eastern Europe.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
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“Rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifle. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.
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