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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
Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 28 Nov. 2024
In July, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle on a rooftop about 400 feet outside a rally Butler, Pennsylvania.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
Marvin Kalb and Garrett Mitchell, TIME, 18 July 2024
What Goliath looks like when the stone rifled via David’s slingshot deals critical damage.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2024
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Noun
These are not necessarily easy shot opportunities, so rifle setups need to be accurate and the rifleman needs to posess real skills.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 28 Nov. 2024
In July, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle on a rooftop about 400 feet outside a rally Butler, Pennsylvania.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
Verb
Mitchell is the editor of The Mitchell Report For a few tense moments in the late afternoon of Saturday, June 13th, the country gasped as the specter of assassinations-past rifled its way into a Trump rally in Butler, Pa.
—Marvin Kalb and Garrett Mitchell, TIME, 18 July 2024
What Goliath looks like when the stone rifled via David’s slingshot deals critical damage.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2024
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The first Menendez brothers trial for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents Jose and Kitty resulted in a hung jury.Christine Pelisek, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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After three straight drives in the second half without a first down, the Packers reeled off three in a row to start their next drive but still didn’t score on it after a shotgun run to Jacobs was stuffed well short on fourth and 2 from Seattle’s 39-yard line.Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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That the Astros are shopping setup man Ryan Pressly already suggests the club is searching for ways to create payroll space.Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
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Folks began searching for the word pander more in mid-October, when Democrats and Republicans mocked each other leading up to the presidential election.Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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Eventually Claire is able to remove the second musket ball, and Lord John happily announces the news to William and Rachel, who are waiting in the parlor.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Nov. 2024
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The one fatality among the troops was a Union officer who was downed by a musket shot through the thigh, according to a Texas Historical Marker at the site.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Mar. 2024
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Businesses will also benefit from leveraging large context windows to comb through their entire corpus of documents—aka institutional knowledge—in a single prompt.Clint Boulton, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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As an introverted schoolboy in Reading, England—his family had moved there from Belfast—Branagh wrote to his actor heroes, combing through old theatre magazines and charting their rise from tiny parts at the Royal Shakespeare Company to later triumphs.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
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According to an investigative report obtained by USA TODAY, a person who was raking on the beach notified Key Biscayne Police on Nov. 12 that a head washed ashore and the Miami Dade Police Department responded to the scene.Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
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At the end of the day, homeowners have to choose whether to rake or not to rake.Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
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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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Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 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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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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The State Department, in its blunderbuss way, wanted to open up a kind of détente with the citizens of Communist Eastern Europe.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
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“Rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifle. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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