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needle

[need-l] / ˈnid l /


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LIV tried to thread a vibe needle between a nouveau country club and the tailgate at a Limp Bizkit show, and it never clicked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

It could be a small needle for the governor-elect to thread.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Or maybe there’s a sense this is “old news” and won’t move the needle.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Reports that the Walt Disney Company is poised to lay off thousands of workers didn’t seem to move the needle for its languishing stock on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

She held it, as carefully as if it were alive, and watched the needle spin a full circle, until it pointed back up the cliff, back exactly the way she had come.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

And do you risk spending your Christmas week cleaning up piles of pine needles?

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Used needles should be disposed of separately through dedicated clinical waste services.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

A new optical sensor costing just $10 could bring laboratory-level precision to wearable health monitors, potentially allowing people to track blood glucose without needles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Most land plants sprout leaves, which include evergreen needles and blades of grass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Its tiny claws felt like needles against his skin.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

For nearly two decades, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has needled and probed Wall Street at every turn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Women on the jury bristled when Meta attorney Andrew Stanner needled Kaley’s former therapist over her credentials during a tense cross examination on Wednesday — “You have a master’s degree, right?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

During the session in 2017, he needled Rex Tillerson - urging him to describe Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal which Tillerson refused to do.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025

In theaters, airplanes and performance spaces, I needled my companions by demanding specific aisle seats for legroom and faster escape.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023

Then the planes flew high and needled into the sky that spread above them like a thin fabric.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

These were actors who may have earlier been needling at or attempting to push my boundaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

After graduating, she began practicing conventional Western medicine at a clinic by day, and needling animals in their living rooms on evenings and weekends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

British journalist Piers Morgan, who delights in needling Australia, posted his condolences along with a prayer emoji on social media: "My thoughts with @CricketAus at this very difficult time."

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

The Steelers made no reference to dry needling in an update on Friday but that element was revealed in a post on X, external by his older brother JJ.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

To be broke in New York was to feel a constant, needling sense of failure, as you were regularly confronted by people who had not only more but much, much more.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris


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