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Example sentences for: jab

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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.
Wilde himself was endlessly transgressive, always finding a new way to jab Victorian complacency.
The conventional response to this amusing transposition is A funny jab at a recalcitrant pupil.
These 31 probe sets are derived from 27 unique genes, and most likely represent bona fide IL-2 targets, since the group includes the genes JAB/SSI-1/SOCS-1, flt3 ligand, IL-2Rp55, caspase 3, and p78, which have already been reported as IL-2-induced genes.