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Many consumers are feeling the inflation sting from their monthly electric bills, which rose 36% since August 2021, with ratepayers now receiving $176 monthly bills on average.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Asian currencies continued to feel the sting of a stronger dollar and higher rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The crowd laughed eagerly, but there was an unmistakable existential sting to that punchline.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

More commonly found in the colder waters off Scotland, a marine biologist said although the lion's main sting was "nasty", it was not dangerous.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The place was infested with sting weeds and scurrying field mice.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

"Right now it obviously really stings, so I'm just going to try and let myself feel it today - but try and get over it pretty quick," Raducanu said.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

“But it still stings, knowing how much those were.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

It may not be as bad as bailing on the Bambino, but losing Betts still stings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

The scent of burning feathers, parchment, and wood stings my nose.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 William Carew Hazlitt

O. N. a in originally close syllable > æ, written a: anger, hansell, apert, ban, blabber, slak, cast, chaff, dash, dram, bang, fang, stang, lack, etc.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

The stang is of Saxon origin, and is practised in Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, for the purpose of exposing a kind of gyneocracy, or, the wife wearing the galligaskins.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 by Various

It curled and squirmed and gleamed, The stang it glowed, red-hot it seemed; Whate'er it touched it brunt and bristled, The very sod it scorched and frizzled.

From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Violet Flint

I just had to buy a car, which stung, but every other spare dollar goes toward stacking.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

General Motors GM 1.58%increase; up pointing triangle , stung in recent years by critical parts shortages, is setting up a $4.5 billion safety net designed to keep critical components flowing through supply-chain troubles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

But please do not do this if you have allergies, or are likely to get stung.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Though stung, physically and emotionally, Sara carries on with a trip to the Devil’s Mouth caves because her recently deceased father visited them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Jack had been much more interested in learning why bees stung or what part of the month were-rabbits transformed into humans, rather than how to deal with spoiled royals who couldn’t get out of bed.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Terry Strada, whose husband Tom Strada died in the Twin Towers, unleashed a stinging attack on Riyadh, accusing it of complicity in the attacks, and denouncing former presidents who were in attendance.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Shazeer’s departure is especially stinging because Google parent Alphabet spent billions of dollars bringing him back to the company only two years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

However, nearly all of that pattern can be traced to one particular group: the aculeate Hymenoptera, which includes stinging wasps, bees and ants.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

It’s a stinging insult: By the samurai code, Kanbei should be killed, not imprisoned — Murashige couldn’t have landed a more devastating slap than by letting him live.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Not that you could do much breathing in the stinging January air.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson