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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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Recent Examples of rifle
Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
The 13-month-old’s dad, Adam Joseph Montoya, 27, is accused of fatally shooting the baby with an AR-15 rifle in front of her mom, prosecutors said in a Feb. 24 Facebook post.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2025
Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
The Broncos were pinned at their own 7-yard line when Nix rifled a pass to midfield where wide receiver Marvin Mims Jr. caught the ball and sprinted to the end zone for a 93-yard score.
—Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Listen to this article An Arizona man is facing charges for using an AR-style rifle to shoot and kill his 1-year-old daughter in front of her mother, authorities said.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
The 13-month-old’s dad, Adam Joseph Montoya, 27, is accused of fatally shooting the baby with an AR-15 rifle in front of her mom, prosecutors said in a Feb. 24 Facebook post.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
Three plays later, Williams bought time and rifled a ball to receiver Rome Odunze for 15 yards into Seattle territory.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
The Broncos were pinned at their own 7-yard line when Nix rifled a pass to midfield where wide receiver Marvin Mims Jr. caught the ball and sprinted to the end zone for a 93-yard score.
—Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rifle
Noun
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In a sometimes vivid and sometimes dense press conference in downtown LA, Nathan Hochman revealed his office is opposing efforts by the siblings to have their life sentences for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents challenged and given new trials.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
21 Feb. 2025
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In an exclusive interview, Jenna Dewan gave Us an update on planning her wedding to fiancé Steve Kazee — which might become a shotgun affair.—
Meredith Nardino,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
Verb
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For example, Baca Systems shared that before AI agents, customers who called the company with service questions (typically about a hardware issue) would wait an average of five to seven minutes while a human agent searched for relevant cases and analyzed technical documents.—
Aytekin Tank,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The Ducks are demanding more attention to detail from the offensive specialist, and getting it, but Zegras is still searching for a way to hang on to the parts of his game that once separated him.—
Chris Johnston,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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The musket ball was finally removed 17 years after Miller was wounded.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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The Sassenach’s survival is an important development, given that Mrs. Fraser ended the previous episode with a musket ball in her liver and an alarming amount of her blood on the ground.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
6 Jan. 2025
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Loose dry Once the hair has been towel-dried and combed through with a wide-toothed comb or detangling brush, use your hair dryer on low heat.—
Marie Bladt,
Vogue,
28 Feb. 2025
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The discovery of Petito's remains came after law enforcement combed through a camping area in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest and found human remains that were later confirmed to be Petito's.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Trashing Yard Waste Every fall, gardeners and homeowners head out into their yards to rake their lawns and pile autumn leaves in trash bags on the curb.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Feb. 2025
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Use the tine side for raking debris into piles and for rough grading and then flip the rake over and use the bow side for smoothing.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
15 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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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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Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state.—
Zac Anderson,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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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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“Rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifle. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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