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to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
rifled the desk drawer in search of the insurance policy
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Recent Examples of rifle
Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 1 Apr. 2025
Investigators searched two vehicles linked to Kim and his apartment, and found multiple firearms, including rifles, a shotgun, a handgun and gun parts, as well as ammunition.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
With nowhere to go, Morant rifles a pass to Bane, who has shifted to the corner.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
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Noun
During the search of the teen’s bedroom, investigators found seven additional handguns and a short-barrel rifle, which had no serial number, the petition said.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 1 Apr. 2025
Investigators searched two vehicles linked to Kim and his apartment, and found multiple firearms, including rifles, a shotgun, a handgun and gun parts, as well as ammunition.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
Following their early-season struggles, Los Angeles rifled off nine wins to make the postseason.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
With nowhere to go, Morant rifles a pass to Bane, who has shifted to the corner.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rifle
Noun
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Four officers ran to the fence - three pulling out handguns and another pointing what appeared to be a shotgun.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
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So the next day, his father rode shotgun, guiding him through traffic and offering wisdom: Never race other taxis to a fare.—
Jonah Markowitz,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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After running the financial models and tallying the costs associated with the new levies, Liss set off to Asia in March to search for an alternative business plan.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2025
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Authorities in London are searching for an 11-year-old girl who went missing in the River Thames while on a day off from school.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Some key finds were a 4,500-year-old projectile point, animal bones in fireplaces that revealed the soldiers’ diet, and lead drippings from a task usually assigned to the women of the encampments: pouring lead into molds to create musket balls.—
Pamela Brown,
Hartford Courant,
18 Mar. 2025
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The musket ball was finally removed 17 years after Miller was wounded.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Nearly a week after the quake, searchers in neighbouring Thailand hunting for survivors combed a mountain of debris left after a skyscraper in the capital, Bangkok, collapsed while under construction.—
Reuters,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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Tasking Leave-in Hair Treatment and combed through her entire head for an even application.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
Verb
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Grab your heavy-duty broom or rake and sweep debris manually wherever tidying up is needed.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
29 Mar. 2025
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Ready for weeding, raking, or the occasional non-gardening task, put these gloves to the test.—
Nora Taylor,
Architectural Digest,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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My first rifle had been a flintlock that had been given to me by an old friend, Ed Wesson, the gunsmith.—
Outdoor Life,
Outdoor Life,
23 Nov. 2023
Noun
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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.—
Paul Scharre,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2018
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Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
7 Mar. 2018
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“Rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifle. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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