Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A needy person; a person who is in want.
- noun Needlework.
- noun The process of using a surgical needle.
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- noun A
needy person . - verb Present participle of
needle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He also delighted in needling O'Malley, apparently trying to disrupt the latter's eerily disciplined attachment to talking points stressing innovation, investment, education, and similar uplifting and visionary objectives.
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He also delighted in needling O'Malley, apparently trying to disrupt the latter's eerily disciplined attachment to talking points stressing innovation, investment, education, and similar uplifting and visionary objectives.
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He also delighted in needling O'Malley, apparently trying to disrupt the latter's eerily disciplined attachment to talking points stressing innovation, investment, education, and similar uplifting and visionary objectives.
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A FRIEND WITH WHOM I HAVE A DAILY CORRESPONDENCE takes great pleasure in needling me on my, shall we say, adamantine position that we need to start fighting the First Terrorist War to win it and not as if we are engaged in a game of patty-cake.
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And as Mortimer points out, more often than not, the people who do the needling are the ones who are lacking in elite university credentials themselves.
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China says US is "needling" China with arms sales to Taiwan.
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The Green Party national convention, scheduled to open here in a little more than two weeks, will certainly produce exactly that kind of needling chatter.
Christine Escobar: Democrats Beware: The Green Party Convention Cometh!
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But the Church can keep 'needling' at some of the fundamental attitudes (just how did we get here, to a situation in which the unreality of a lot of our financial life simply spirals out of control?)
University of Chichester, Lecture Question and Answer session
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That angered Di Nickle, who has lived at the estates for 11 years and is tired of what he feels is undue "needling" of residents about minor issues.
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The acupuncture points are specific locations where the Meridians come to the surface of the skin, and are easily accessible by "needling," Moxibustion, and Acupressure.
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