gimlet

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gimlet
Verb
  • And then also reducing the amount of surface coverage on the band itself by also removing and perforating.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Both Lowe's and HGTV recommend a scoring tool or sandpaper to perforate the paper slightly so the water solution has easier access to the adhesive.
    Anna Kaufman, The Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.
    Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
  • And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.
    Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
Verb
  • Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.
    CNN, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Visitors can view a variety of media including textiles—such as Navajo artist D.Y. Begay’s Southwest landscape painting on wool—beadwork, sculpture, photography, film and even clothing attire such as beaded and quilled Louboutin shoes.
    Lily Katzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
Verb
  • The nature of Trump and White’s relationship is unique, especially in a second term riddled with presidential friends and familiar faces, as White appears to be one of the few people in his inner circle who is not jockeying for a cabinet seat or personal advancement.
    Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Detroit has been riddled by injuries all season, with its secondary hit hard in particular.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The chat reportedly suggested the members had strong ties to the police force, which then brought police corruption into the multi-pronged scandal.
    Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2019
  • Apparently, there's now a new twist on the classic shape, looking a little more modern with an oval center stone and spiky pronged diamonds surrounding it.
    Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 2 Aug. 2019
Verb
  • In a signature segment, the Joke Wall, performers in mod regalia poked their heads out of holes in a set, like cuckoos emerging from a clock, and spouted one-liners.
    Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Some of his fellow officers poked fun at him and his blue vest.
    Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The playoffs could not come at a much worse time for the Steelers, who were punching above their statistical weight for three months before the luck-factor odds (notably, turnover margin) caught up to them.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Before the house was put on the market, the seller dutifully encased the existing stair in concrete so that the entrance was no longer accessible and punched a rudimentary new door on the ground floor.
    Julie Lasky, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The previous night, Audra McDonald hugged her during a scene and one of the many bobby pins in Woods’s wig pricked her head, making her bleed.
    Dina Litovsky, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The first lancet pricked my skin with alarming precision.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Gimlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gimlet. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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