saber
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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
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
Despite the obstacles and unbelievable odds, I had accomplished what I set out to do with my saber, and it was the sweetest feeling of satisfaction I’d ever had.
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
“Not exactly. He’s got his heart set on a cavalry charge. Drawn sabers, all that glorious French business. He was horrified when I had to tell him we didn’t use the British square.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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