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saber

[say-ber] / ˈseɪ bər /
NOUN
weapon
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Those predators included anacondas, saber toothed mammals, flightless "terror birds" and sebecids, a group of land dwelling relatives of crocodylians.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

The U.S. will have to rethink the size of its saber and carefully determine where to most effectively deploy its forces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

Yet at other times he has rattled the nuclear saber.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

The Eisenhower library has several swords from the president in its collection, including a saber and a sword of honour featured in a current exhibit.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

It only took about two weeks to feel like I’d been fencing saber all along.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

He told the president he could go even farther than Ronald Reagan, which, in this context, is an interesting statement, since Reagan rattled some sabers initially but actually made the judicious decision to withdraw.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

Paleontologists still do not know how saber-toothed animals like Smilodon hunted prey without breaking their unwieldy sabers.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024

The molecular sabers are unlikely to promote resistance because bacteria cannot easily change the essential cell-wall components that lysins target.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 2023

Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker going head-to-head with wands and light sabers.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

Fawkes was soaring around its head, and the basilisk was snapping furiously at him with fangs long and thin as sabers — Fawkes dived.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling


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