stab
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The latest discovery to invade my algorithms arrived when Claude took a stab at a tantalizing math problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Pintscher then served as its artist-in-residence, during which he oversaw a stab at the avant-garde.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
"When people have been loyal to you, you never stab them in the back."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Kennedy takes a stab at the salmon cake, brings one bite to his mouth and calls it “amazing.”
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Scanlan Lake was a man-made sort of lake-pond that was Miles City’s best stab at a municipal pool.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
“Tell me who’s to blame — is it the people or myself?” she wonders against the icy synth stabs of the title track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Romeo, 23, tried to follow his father into football and modelling, while Brooklyn, 26, has had stabs at careers in photography and cooking.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 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
The brass stabs that open Act I had an almost expressionistic quality — severe, vital, grim — and the ones that closed it were cold, powerful and withholding.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Pain stabs my stomach when I see him.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
On his June 2026 song “We Know the Truth,” he rejected allegations connecting him to the killing and said he learned after arriving to perform at the festival that someone had been stabbed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
In the four years since her father was fatally stabbed near the entrance of their home in northern Israel, 10-year-old Shireen has carried the burden of grief on her tiny shoulders.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
In one version circulating, attributed to a source in the VA police, she had already been stabbed by the time she arrived at the VA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
As the footage continues, the officer can be heard asking: "You've been stabbed, whereabouts?" before adding: "Don't think you have, mate."
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Incomprehensible voices battered him, sobs and shouts and wails stabbed the night, but Harry and Ginny walked on, back up the steps into the entrance hall.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
The taxi driver who fled the scene of the Southport stabbing attack and waited 50 minutes before calling 999 has had his licence stripped.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
The Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request on June 2 for VA Police records of the hallway death and the stabbing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
The New York Police Department said it would not increase security specifically at Penn Station because of Sunday's stabbing.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
Not meeting my eye, she kept stabbing at her canvas.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
