saber

variants or sabre

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Recent Examples of saber But the dire wolf is an actual real-world predator, which went extinct about 13,000 years ago after roaming North America for thousands of years before that, alongside saber tooth tigers and mastodons. Mike Snider, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025 And despite the saber rattling coming from the Trump administration, attempting to force the issue would pose major complications for two other top US priorities: migration and the economy. Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025 Cómo saber la talla del pantalón con tu brazo: hay 5 trucos de estilista© Carola de Armas 4. Blanca De Almandoz, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2025 While the economic saber rattling may not be followed-up with actual tariffs, the threat alone is enough to rattle financial markets and give business people pause about making new investments. Scott Horsley, NPR, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for saber
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Noun
  • With fire and broadsword came pestilence, in the form of a sickness called Morrisania fever, which carried off many Refugees.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • In 2019, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas stabbed the balloon of sky-high expectations of his candidacy with a broadsword of a meltdown in Miami.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • After a rapier start of ten wins out of 11, the results have tailed off.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • As for weapons, Jon Snow’s Valyrian steel sword, Longclaw; Arya Stark’s rapier, Needle and Jaime Lannister’s Oathkeeper are among the offerings.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • In contrast to most Final Destination deaths, in which any number of innocuous objects could, and often do, possess the potential for danger, there’s only one in Lewis’s case that’s repeatedly emphasized — two scimitars hanging on the gym wall above him.
    Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025
  • More than 500 of them, in fact, from native whitetail deer to yaks, scimitar oryx, and water buffalo.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Noun
  • Guns, knives, swords, cleavers, axes, ice picks and flamethrowers will all be put to use in this tale of a revenge.
    Andrew Torgan, CNN Money, 1 June 2025
  • It's decorated with a hunting scene depicting men armed with swords and shields, as well as dogs and lions – painting a vivid picture of life in the past.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 May 2025

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“Saber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saber. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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