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Example sentences for: sting

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Redness, inflammation and local oedema at the sting site are evident [ 11 ] .
In reporting on a FBI sting that collared 16 computer brokers trafficking in stolen IBM parts across five states, the Wall Street Journal reports that the theft of computer hardware and software is hitting $8 billion annually.
A team of the agency's auditors operated a sting this year that established that callers could easily obtain income data on other taxpayers using only name, address and Social Security Number.
Whistleblowers have been compared to bees—they have just one sting to use and using it may lead to career suicide [11].
The story reports one countermeasure the Federal Trade Commission has put into play: the establishment of a "teaser sting site" (one of a dozen relating to various spurious health claims and get-rich-quick schemes) that promotes fake impotence and sex aids but leads to nothing more than a warning that such e-commerce is dubious.