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Ventura police officers involved in an e-bike sting operation at Ventura Community Park on June 10 attempted to stop the juvenile riding his e-motorcycle on the park grass, according to authorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

You can file your estimated tax payments quarterly to take the sting out.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

At the same time, several weeks of decline mean prices are now well below a recent peak above $4.50, taking some sting out of fill-ups.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Now the kingdom is expected to face huge bills for defense and for pipelines and rail lines that could help protect the country from the economic sting of another attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

I ice it when I get home, and when I press on the place that hurt before, the sting is so mild I might be imagining it.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The fact that Patel has no criminal record and is not required to be on probation stings for San Mateo County Dist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

This can be caused by food, medicine or insect stings.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Ms. Gionfriddo writes tartly funny dialogue that stings and surprises, with tangy quips and savage retorts whizzing through the air, giving a buoyancy even to scenes that occasionally stretch past their necessary length.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

Oil around $110 a barrel certainly stings, but it may not last.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

And the thing that stings most, to me, is that I'm so helpless to stop the madness.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!"

From Time Magazine Archive

The fumes stang my palate and thrilled me with expectancy.

From Caught by the Turks by Yeats-Brown, Francis

A blessing on the cheery gang Wha dearly like a jig or sang, An’ never think o’ right an’ wrang By square an’ rule, But as the clegs o’ feeling stang Are wise or fool.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

What? stang; what do you want? stang chins-klé; what are you doing? stang chin-chái; what is your name? stang chins-ná; what is that? stang ta-sái-ya.

From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by Gibbs, George

Here is a box full of humble bees, That stang Eve as she sat on her knees, Tasting the fruit to her forbidden.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

"It smelled like plastic burning. It stung my nose," Chanate recounts.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Barry Callebaut, one of the world's biggest chocolate makers, signalled Thursday that chocoholics are starting to replenish their stocks after being stung by inflation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Some unavoidable costs still stung, though, like the $98 roundtrip NJ Transit fare to the stadium.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

“I was sitting in the audience and it stung a little bit,” Clark, 33, confessed.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

Even if I dared to walk this far into The Woods alone, I wouldn’t be able to get the honeycomb like she did, not without getting stung a thousand times.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

His most stinging losses were arguably in cases that the court didn’t hear.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

The cathedral where Avraamiy usually holds services, decked with gold and brightly colored religious scenes, was filled with acrid smoke, stinging the rescuers’ eyes and throats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

He briefly responded in the fourth, hurting Verhoeven with a straight right and stinging left.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

Bass faced stinging criticism over her absence from the city when the fire broke out and her handling of the recovery.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

I felt tears stinging my eyes as the bus pulled out of the station.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan