stylet

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Recent Examples of stylet The team explains how scientists can examine an octopus’ beak, stylets, and growth rings in the lab to determine how old the animal is. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024 Sulfur sprays and stylet oil fungicides will also reduce the spread of powdery mildew. Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023 The last stylet—the hypopharynx—drips mosquito saliva into the wound. John Sass, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023 The procedure involves using a slender surgical probe known as a stylet to guide a tube down the woman's throat, according to Dr. Hudman Hoo, a pulmonologist and the medical director of St. Anthony's Hospital's ICU ward in St. Petersburg, Florida. Randi Kaye and Travis Caldwell, CNN, 11 Sep. 2021 The respiratory therapist pulled out my stylet, inflated the tip balloon through its small port at the top, attached an Ambu bag to the open mouth of the endotracheal tube and pushed in liters of oxygen. Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stylet
Noun
  • The lens ships with a petal-style hood that ratchets on or off the front bayonet with a twist and can be reversed for easier storage and transport, front and rear caps, and a drawstring pouch.
    Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Forty-five degree angle with your bayonet, go through the soil, find, find, find, dink dink.
    Tracy Smith, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Additionally, one person was arrested on suspicion of possessing a dirk or dagger, police said.
    City News Service, Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Owen Caissie hit a changeup from Victor Vodnik, sending it 394 feet and over the right-center field wall for a two-run dagger to the Rockies’ heart.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This includes openly carrying the famous Jim Bowie knife, as well as daggers, dirks, throwing knives, stilettos, poniards, swords, machetes and spears.
    John Tufts, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • The bodkins were helpful tools that could double as hairpins.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Icke also occasionally cues up some Bob Dylan songs, chosen for their on-the-bodkin lyrics.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 30 June 2022
Noun
  • The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Noun
  • Coors Field has made Hall of Famers feign injuries, rookies beg for mercy, and used Lorenzen for dental floss after the Phillies devoured, in order, his curve, slider, cutter, changeup and sinker.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Patrick pounded the strike zone with his cutter, sinker and four-seam fastball.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Granville’s exploits included skiing over the Carpathian mountains during the war to deliver microfilms with cyanide sewed into her skirts and a hunting knife tucked into her trousers.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Police said the deputies were telling the suspect to drop the knife.
    Brandon Downs, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Her eight-inch stilettos proved to be a bit of an issue though.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026
  • At Dior, jeans wide and relaxed with aged washed or straight and ending neatly above stilettos.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 11 Mar. 2026

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“Stylet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stylet. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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