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
O'Rourke's rapier wit frequently cut across the US political divide.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
He had a surprisingly compelling speaking voice for so small a man, an instrument that he wielded like a rapier when he addressed large crowds in person or spoke on the radio.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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
Our rapiers were hockey sticks with modified handles and a retracting spring mechanism built into the hollow fiberglass shaft to allow us to stab without injuring one another.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2012
Two men sprang to their feet, their hands reaching for their rapiers, but a third man stepped between them.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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Othello
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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