saber
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“While there is still uncertainty and saber rattling over the Iran conflict, markets are forward looking and currently looking forward,” said Rick Gardner, chief investment officer at RGA Investments in Raleigh.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Guidance should be fairly balanced given the geopolitical tensions, though Nomura anticipates some saber rattling to help contain inflation expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
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
The Army-Notre Dame rivalry writes its own storylines: the pope’s boys against the Doughboys, religion and the military, the cross versus the saber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2024
With saber, the target area is from the waist up, and saberists can use slashing motions to score with the side of their blades.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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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
In “The Crazy Adventures of Don Quixote,” a musical Morán wrote with Radamés Gavé, don’t be surprised to see Cervantes’s 17th-century characters duel with “Star Wars”-style light sabers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
By common consent they were using the spears as sabers now, no longer daring the lethal points.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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