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stab

[stab] / stæb /




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Bryan is hardly the first child of a rich and famous music superstar to take a stab at high-level college football, with the mid-2010s experiencing a rush of attempts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Jair Bolsonaro is serving his sentence under house arrest for health reasons stemming from a stab wound he suffered in 2018 during the campaign in which he was elected president.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

But that’s how we’ve taken the initial stab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The first stab at a post-Stokes team included four frontline seamers – Jofra Archer, Ollie Robinson, Josh Tongue and Gus Atkinson – supported by the part-time off-breaks of Dan Lawrence.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

A huddle of young women—four young women—giggled behind their hands when they passed, eyeing Kamau appreciatively, and Ekon tried to temper an old stab of jealousy.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

It “has much to do with real estate scions fancying themselves purveyors of a new Renaissance, but the buildings themselves are less inspired by Renaissance principles than vague stabs at worldliness.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Moreover, the occasional stabs at quotable mom-power dialogue feel patronizing, not that the audience for ultraviolent action pictures typically includes a lot of moms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Monty Norman's surf guitar riff and John Barry's sweeping orchestral scores spawned an entire genre of spy music – full of minor key suspense and piercing stabs of trumpet.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Certainly he and his team have given it their all; the time they’ve put in and their stabs at various compromises have been impressive.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2024

Our food arrives, but Rhiannon just stabs the ketchup with her French fries.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

His 45-year-old rival will travel to the city of Belo Horizonte before visiting the house in Rio where his father recovered after being stabbed during his ultimately successful presidential campaign in 2018.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Smit Machchhar was hailed for his heroism after being stabbed on Flight 1073.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster," Netanyahu wrote on X.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The father of a student who was stabbed to death in the Nottingham attacks has criticised a move by Nottinghamshire Police to promote the senior officer who led the investigation.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

I didn’t expect this to come from the person who stabbed a troll in the knee.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust is investigating allegations staff inappropriately accessed Southport stabbing victims' medical records.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Thousands of people crowded Rio's affluent Barra da Tijuca neighborhood on Saturday as the presidential hopeful visited the house where his father recovered from a stabbing during his own campaign in 2018.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Those faulty messages can produce shooting, stabbing or burning sensations.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

U.K. officials have rebuffed the criticism, with Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy pointing out that the attacker was British and saying the stabbing had nothing to do with immigration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

And Harry was left alone, with nothing to distract him from the stabbing pains in his limp arm.

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


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