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jabbing

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verb

present participle of jab

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of jabbing
Verb
In the meantime, Democrats are jabbing back at GOP claims over the New Orleans atrocity. Niall Stanage, The Hill, 3 Jan. 2025 Companies perfected the art of evasion, leaving us jabbing the zero key like a deranged woodpecker just to talk to someone with a pulse. Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024 Unfortunately, too many creditors will simply start jabbing at hard assets and one-time bank account levies without seeing the enormous pot of gold in front of them in the debtor's revenue streams. Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jabbing
Verb
  • Smith was convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and her sons decades ago.
    CBS News, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Brooks was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2017 for stabbing his girlfriend in Monroe County.
    Kate Holland, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • And an image of a woman named Linda Jackson washing her hair in a plastic bin on the Navajo Nation, the striking mountains of Monument Valley piercing the background, was how Elliot Ross shed light on what life is like in America’s water inequality capital.
    TIME Photo Department, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The She Wolf's howl is as piercing as ever.
    Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The highest point, a jagged cluster called the Bavella Needles, soars more than 6,000 feet.
    Sara Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Now, an apologetic Martin, who says the damage to the bluff was unintentional, has won city of Miami approval for an unprecedented fix — hiring a skilled stonemason to recreate the missing top two-and-a-half feet of the exposed, naturally jagged rock outcropping.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • That’s the cost of not picking in the first round in each of the last three drafts.
    Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • As such, investors will be better off picking ADBE stock in the current dip for robust long-term gains, in our view.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025

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“Jabbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jabbing. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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