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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
Dan Mangan, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
The council passed a law earlier this year banning bump stocks, which are accessories that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly, like machine guns.
—Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2024
The De La Salle fielder then popped up and rifled a bullet over to first base to end the top of the fifth inning.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
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He was arrested on Sept. 15 after allegedly fleeing from a Secret Service agent who opened fire at him from Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach after spotting a rifle poking from a tree line.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
The council passed a law earlier this year banning bump stocks, which are accessories that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly, like machine guns.
—Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
Verb
What Goliath looks like when the stone rifled via David’s slingshot deals critical damage.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2024
The De La Salle fielder then popped up and rifled a bullet over to first base to end the top of the fifth inning.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
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On back-to-back plays, though, Jordan Love fumbled shotgun snaps.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Here's a look at life in prison for the notorious brothers and three paths to potential freedom: The case Lyle Menendez, then 21, and Erik Menendez, then 18, admitted to buying shotguns and firing 16 rounds at Jose and Kitty Menendez inside the family's Beverly Hills home in 1989.Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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The city had long been searching for someone to develop part of downtown Jackson, and when two men showed up expressing their interest in late February, City Council member Virgi Lindsay agreed to meet with them at an upscale steakhouse in a nearby suburb.Bracey Harris, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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When Loera went down, Montoya searched for new answers in the midfield and found a trio that worked in Tess Boade, Kiki Pickett and Dorian Bailey, none of whom had a wealth of experience in a midfield role.Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Should that musket misfire, don’t look for the cleric.Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
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The town's population grew in the 1820s as a result of the lead mining boom, where the mine became one of the most productive in the region, manufacturing the musket balls used in the Civil War, according to the city's website.Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2024
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Use fingers to massage the product into the scalp, then comb it through the hair.Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
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Prepare to make the cheese sauce by grating and combing the cheddar and Swiss cheeses.Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024
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As Helene’s outer bands raked the Appalachian range, the French Broad River began to swell.Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
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If your arm hurts just thinking about raking leaves in the fall, an electric leaf blower will make yard cleanup much quicker and less strenuous.Camryn Rabideau, People.com, 11 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 21 Nov. 2024.
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