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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
Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
The 13-month-old’s dad, Adam Joseph Montoya, 27, is accused of fatally shooting the baby with an AR-15 rifle in front of her mom, prosecutors said in a Feb. 24 Facebook post.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2025
Aaron Portzline, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
In the end, the inability to get a decisive third goal was costly, as, with just three minutes of normal time remaining, Jorgen Strand Larsen rifled in an equalizer to share the points.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Listen to this article An Arizona man is facing charges for using an AR-style rifle to shoot and kill his 1-year-old daughter in front of her mother, authorities said.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
The 13-month-old’s dad, Adam Joseph Montoya, 27, is accused of fatally shooting the baby with an AR-15 rifle in front of her mom, prosecutors said in a Feb. 24 Facebook post.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
Johnson made a dizzying series of moves before rifling the puck between Kochetkov’s pads.
—Aaron Portzline, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
In the end, the inability to get a decisive third goal was costly, as, with just three minutes of normal time remaining, Jorgen Strand Larsen rifled in an equalizer to share the points.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Jon Bernthal's Punisher will headline Werewolf by Night-style Marvel special: 'Like a shotgun blast of a story' (exclusive) Addressing it now with EW, Woll says those were genuine emotions.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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While searching the property, deputies found that the front door was barricaded shut and the back door was rigged with a shotgun.—
Nicole Acosta,
People.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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East Point, Prince Edward Island Less than ninety minutes east of the provincial capital of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island’s East Point is perfect for a morning spent searching for shorebirds on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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In the 50 years since Hilbert’s 10th problem was resolved, mathematicians have been searching for this cutoff.—
Joseph Howlett,
WIRED,
9 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
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The Sassenach’s survival is an important development, given that Mrs. Fraser ended the previous episode with a musket ball in her liver and an alarming amount of her blood on the ground.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
6 Jan. 2025
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Loose dry Once the hair has been towel-dried and combed through with a wide-toothed comb or detangling brush, use your hair dryer on low heat.—
Marie Bladt,
Vogue,
28 Feb. 2025
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The discovery of Petito's remains came after law enforcement combed through a camping area in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest and found human remains that were later confirmed to be Petito's.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Work these into the upper 4-6 inches of soil, then rake the surface to create a smooth planting bed.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
3 Mar. 2025
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Gardening Various full-body movements are involved in gardening, like pulling weeds, bending over or squatting, raking, shoveling, and repetitive use of heavy tools.—
Cristina Mutchler,
Verywell Health,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
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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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Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state.—
Zac Anderson,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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Colman is Edith Swan, a middle-aged church lady who still lives with her blunderbuss of a father (Timothy Spall) and mild-mannered mother (Gemma Jones) in a working-class neighborhood of Littlehampton.—
Ty Burr,
Washington Post,
4 Apr. 2024
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“Rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifle. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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