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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
Julia Manchester, The Hill, 3 Jan. 2025
An October 2024 joint report by the Tech Transparency Project found that more than 230 ads for rifles and ghost guns had run on Facebook and Instagram in nearly three months.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
Matt Pyzdrowski, The Athletic, 10 July 2024
The Cowboys would need some steep secondary help to stop the pair from rifling off big plays.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Then, in September, a man was spotted aiming a rifle at Trump at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla.
—Julia Manchester, The Hill, 3 Jan. 2025
An October 2024 joint report by the Tech Transparency Project found that more than 230 ads for rifles and ghost guns had run on Facebook and Instagram in nearly three months.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
Van Dijk rifling the ball into the upper left corner despite Kepa already standing in the left corner
If the game against England does go to a shootout, there is a high probability that Van Dijk will be one of the first players Ronald Koeman selects to take one of the Netherlands’ penalties.
—Matt Pyzdrowski, The Athletic, 10 July 2024
The Cowboys would need some steep secondary help to stop the pair from rifling off big plays.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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For firearm enthusiasts, the venerable Italian gunmaker Beretta (one of SCI’s longest running partners) will be showcasing a one-of-a-kind shotgun at its booth that is part of a global auction ending at the end of January.Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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The alleged auto thief had a 12-gauge shotgun, ammunition and marijuana in that vehicle when he was pulled over by authorities in Clare County Sunday, according to MLive.Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025
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The problem here is, rather obviously, that as more people search for VPN apps, so more people are in danger of falling into the SEO poisoning traps set by the playfulghost threat actors.Davey Winder, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Rescuers working in subzero conditions and bracing winds searched the rubble on Wednesday after a strong quake in Tibet toppled thousands of houses in a remote area near the northern foothills of Mount Everest.Tiffany May, New York Times, 8 Jan. 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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In recent decades, however, the military has also been polluting the home front, most notably with a toxic chemical never heard of in the era of muskets and drums: PFAS.Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
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Diamant and Kafka combed the park for it to no avail.Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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Officials are combing through data on three phones and two laptops linked to Jabbar to determine whether there are any other potential leads.Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
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Just rake some into a portion of the yard and leave them over winter.Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2024
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The controversy was somewhat Shakespearian: To rake or not to rake?Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 18 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 Jan. 2025.
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