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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
Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Her parents were horrified; in fact, Louis Bardot took a rifle to him.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2025
Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
The way that Jackson can throw downfield and rifle off chunk yardage on the ground is a major reason why the Ravens likely had to be very careful with his recovery from the hamstring injury.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Police said Morgan refused their orders and ultimately grabbed the rifle.
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Forest respond two minutes later after the hosts fail to deal with Dan Ndoye’s cross, Ibrahim Sangare rifling home.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for rifle
Noun
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But hand the ball off from that same shotgun formation?—
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There was also a bad fumble on a snap out of shotgun.—
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Austin Abrams stars as a scuba diver who, while searching for his father’s (Josh Brolin) body, gets swallowed and must find a way to escape.—
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Police are combing through a Chicago condo searching for clues in a double murder case that started more than 300 miles away.—
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The printing press, clocks, muskets — all these inventions changed humankind forever.—
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The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally.—
Verb
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The ashes have settled over the charred Louisville neighborhood where nine people remain missing and families cling to hope as investigators comb through the wreckage of Tuesday’s fatal UPS cargo plane crash.—
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He's assembled a team to comb through the details and evidence.—
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The flintlock coughed a lot of smoke, but Zutterman heard the 270-grain roundball smack the buck.—
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The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.—
Verb
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Burrow, who spoke with media after the Bengals lost 18-20 to the Cleveland Browns, seemed bothered by his 'do from the start, sitting down at the mic and instantly raking his lengthy bangs back with his hands.—
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As for the face touch, when he was raked across the face by New Orleans’ Jordan Poole, on a play ruled a transition take foul, Larsson smiled afterward.—
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This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.—
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With feverish speed and characteristic blunderbuss, President Donald Trump has given the federal government – and himself – unprecedented control over private economic decisions.—
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Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.—
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“Rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifle. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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