rapier
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Susan, who has multiple sclerosis, walks with a cane, but one wouldn’t be surprised to see her wielding it as a rapier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
No one bothered to do the math, however, because Bentsen destroyed Quayle’s point with a rapier thrust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
But only after their rapier hosts punctured them twice in the opening 16 minutes with two goals of ruthless simplicity by Giovanni Simeone.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2022
He sighed, and put the rapier back in what Citra realized was a place of honor.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Accordingly, he brings out the stand-up artist in Cyrano, a man who brandishes one-liners as if they were rapiers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2019
He was terrific at the World Cup, his dynamism and cleverness at the breakdown helping to protect and unleash the rapiers in his backline.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2016
Their prose had the flash of rapiers; his was a cut-throat razor.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2014
The object is to make those fights look dangerous, without endangering the swashbuckling performers who brandish the swords and rapiers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2013
I would not be your equal with pistols’ and Bon: ‘Nor with knives or rapiers too?’ and the lawyer, smooth and easy: ‘Nor knives or rapiers too.’
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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