Words similar to jab

Example sentences for: jab

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The conventional response to this amusing transposition is A funny jab at a recalcitrant pupil.
(A sample jab, from Time 's Richard Schickel: "The film is an unmitigated disaster."
Cyclin A, but not cyclin E levels were also suppressed by MIB in an AR-dependent manner, while the levels of the COP9/signalosome subunit CSN5/JAB1 and tubulin remained constant (Fig.
Do I detect a subtle jab even as Alexander outmaneuvered the Baptist primitives in Congress?
While Los Angeles aims an occasional rhetorical jab at the left, Rieff's second book on Miami, The Exile , was an act of defiant apostasy, sympathetic to the Cuban émigrés' sufferings and aspirations, and contemptuous of the Castro regime.