I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
get pins and needles
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I’ll have to move because I’m starting to get pins and needles in my foot.
knitting needle
pine needle
pins and needles
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I’ll have to move because I’m starting to get pins and needles in my foot.
the compass needle (= the long piece of metal that moves to show north )
thread...needle
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Will you thread the needle for me?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adjacent
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Following her instructions to the letter, I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle .
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For example, the rule of not having two adjacent needles tucking.
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Move stitch from needle 3 to adjacent needle.
alternate
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Also, an alternate needle pattern produces beautiful mash lace very easily.
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Transfer all the stitches to the main bed, placing two stitches on alternate needles .
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This carriage can be set to knit alternate needles on the ribber.
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This, as you probably know by now, selects alternate needles automatically.
clean
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Tacoma's push for clean needles was started by Dave Purchase, a local drug counsellor.
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Instead, they should provide the user with clean needles and information to help avoid infection.
empty
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Put the empty needles in non-working position and knit on.
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Push the empty needle to non-working position.
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Drop the loops from the needles marked X and put the empty needles to non-working position.
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Bring forward the empty in-between needles on both beds, matching the ends.
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All back bed empty needles to non-working position.
fine
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Percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology is, however, highly operator dependent.
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The possible dissemination of tumour by percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology may result in these becoming the diagnostic techniques of choice.
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A fine needle on a syringe was introduced through the cyst wall, and air under pressure pushed the syringe barrel outwards.
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Practitioners use fine needles - normally stainless steel - to stimulate specific anatomical points of the body.
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In these patients two novel cytology methods, endobiliary biopsy and endobiliary fine needle aspiration, may be suitable.
full
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For a Chunky machine and a full needle rib setting use double knit yarn.
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Push up needles for full needle rib.
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Some yarns will give a neat sideways band using full needle rib but others look very floppy so beware.
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For a full needle tuck stitch garment then you can choose between a full needle rib or a 2x1 setting.
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Three and four colour knitting is usually more successful using full needle rib and fine yarns with the ribber.
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For a full needle tuck stitch garment then you can choose between a full needle rib or a 2x1 setting.
hypodermic
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A little extra pressure and I would be able to fish it out with the hypodermic needle I had poised ready.
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Officers found used hypodermic needles in a trailer in the backyard next to an infant car seat.
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She had asked for more antibiotics, some hypodermic needles , and a lot of sterile dressings.
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In recent years, most notably on the album New York, Reed has swapped the hypodermic needle for the wagging finger.
long
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Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correct slot.
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It was like a long knitting needle .
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The woman used long needles of bone to stitch the parts of her son together again.
selected
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If the designer has longer blocks of selected or unselected needles , the floats of weaving yarn will also be longer.
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Those stitches that were on the selected needles have been transferred to the needle on the left.
sharp
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A young, thin-faced man with brown hair, a sharp needle nose and watery eyes answered.
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Using sharp needles and ink, they were in the act of tattooing something on the girl's back.
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The tower is visible tens of miles away, a sharp white needle of stone thrusting into sky.
■ NOUN
compass
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He knew it was a question of keeping a direction in your head, like a compass needle .
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The compass needle points to the magnetic north pole.
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Point the truck west and the engine is now to the left, so it pulls the compass needle left.
exchange
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Black politicians and community leaders who opposed needle exchanges claimed the programme was racist and genocidal.
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San Francisco has had a formal needle exchange throughout the 1990s.
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Make good use of your local needle exchange or chemist and stock up on new works.
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The United States is the only Western country that does not include needle exchange in its drug policy.
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For the last 5 years, chemists in Gloucestershire which display this sign have been operating a needle exchange system.
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We offer advice, needle exchanges , and monitoring of physical and psychological variables.
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My needle exchange operates on a dealing street.
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Five needle exchange schemes, each running for a couple of hours a week.
knitting
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They had a steel knitting needle .
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A knitting needle , in this day and age!
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Cornelius observed that these corresponded in size to the diameter of a number thirteen knitting needle .
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Mr Davidson was battered to death while his daughter's eye was pierced with a knitting needle .
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Out of it she drew a little distaff, much as we would draw out a pair of knitting needles .
pine
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The scent and hissing of pine needles make him believe he's in a hospital where nurses pass by him.
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Gourd artist Alice Hunter of Tavares will teach pine-needle weaving, demonstrating how to decorate rims of gourds with pine needles .
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She was pointing at a recess scraped in the soft earth and pine needles .
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I really believe I could have hit a mosquito in the eye with a pine needle at thirty paces.
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These are domed-shaped mounds, around three feet across, covered in pine needles and busy with ants moving over the surface.
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Pick up a handful of pine needles from the forest floor.
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Bursting from the trees ahead of him, three black shapes came hurtling towards him over the pine needle floor of the clearing.
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Kenny stabbed the toe of his shoe into the layer of pine needles , digging for the dirt beneath.
rib
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For a Chunky machine and a full needle rib setting use double knit yarn.
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Again cast on in full needle rib then transfer the stitches according to the diagram.
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So again if you're unfamiliar with this yarn and needle arrangement, start by knitting stripes in full needle rib .
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Push up needles for full needle rib .
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Some yarns will give a neat sideways band using full needle rib but others look very floppy so beware.
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Cast on in full needle rib , using cast on two and a three-ply or similar weight yarn.
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See Sample B. You can repeat the transfer rows as many times as you wish before continuing in full needle rib .
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Three and four colour knitting is usually more successful using full needle rib and fine yarns with the ribber.
selection
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Automatic end needle selection is another bonus which insures that knitted edges are always neat and tidy.
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So the end needle selection cams on punchcard machines should be put out of work.
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The needle selection for patterning is electromagnetic.
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On machines with automatic end needle selection cams, these are set to select the end needles to the selected position.
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On machines without automatic end needle selection , I watch the end needles.
■ VERB
bring
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Row 1: Bring needle from back to front of work through the stitch below the first stitch to be worked.
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Put the carriage on to the rail, bring it near to the needles , lock it on to the rail and start to turn.
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Reduce your rate of descent immediately to bring the needle back towards the circle.
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After the last stitch of the row, bring the needle up through the stitch above.
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Take particular note that putting the side levers to 0 will bring needles in E position back to B position.
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The carriage will knit, bringing the needles back to B position as it does so.
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So, I bring all the remaining needles forward to knit the background colour.
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Remove waste from this edge and bring the needles forward again. 10.
hold
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The stitching is done holding the needles with tweezers with the surgeons wearing special operating glasses.
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You may have to hold the needles down as you go.
insert
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Quickly Robert inserted the needle into the thigh muscle, and in about a minute, the small body went limp.
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She struggled to find a vein to insert a needle for a transfusion.
knit
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Put the empty needles in non-working position and knit on.
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As you knit , the edge needles will knit back every two rows.
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The carriage will knit , bringing the needles back to B position as it does so.
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When you knit punch lace, the cotton thread in feeder 2 knits every needle on every row.
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This carriage can be set to knit alternate needles on the ribber.
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On Brother and Toyota machines, the needles that are selected forward of the needlebed are the needles that will knit .
leave
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Then firmly tack the seam, leaving the needles in place, to hold the layers together.
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Continue in this way across the bed, leaving stitches on the needles as you crochet.
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Do not leave needles lying around.
move
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The only clues that I was flying were moving needles in gauges and radio conversations with various control towers.
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If nothing moved , then the needle might not jump into the little groove of the day.
push
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Handle down. Push up all in-between needles on the front bed.
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He pushed an intravenous needle into her arm.
put
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I embroidered a design and laid some flax on a scarf, and put it through the needles .
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I watched my high school buddy put a needle into her arm.
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Drop the loops from the needles marked X and put the empty needles to non-working position.
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Volkov kept putting the needle back to the start of the record again, smiling like some one cooking a perfect omelette.
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Ryder, you wouldn't have the bottle to put a needle anywhere near your arm.
select
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Move the carriage across the bed to select the needles .
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Knit two rows as shown by the curved arrow then select the needles and move the lace carriage to the right.
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I understand that in conjunction with the Design Controller it will select the needles for intarsia knitting.
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Nothing will happen, since you haven't yet selected any needles and this carriage can not knit.
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Never select more than one needle in sequence at a time.
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The format of the bed should be lace carriage at the left and main carriage at the right before selecting needles .
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These three rows, selecting the needles and knitting two rows between have created a sloping repeat motif across the row.
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The Carriage is set as for stocking stitch, except that the carriage must be reading the card and selecting the needles .
share
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The rest were mainly infected as a result of injecting drugs and sharing needles .
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Transmission by sharing unsterilized needles is easy to understand.
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How to keep healthy Never share a needle or syringe if you're injecting drugs.
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Still, sharing needles creates a somewhat limited viral highway.
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Most have contracted the disease through sharing needles .
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In addition, IDUs often share needles with the same small cluster of people, keeping infection within a limited circle.
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They had all shared needles for years, but only among themselves.
stick
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Who are these two, these fiercely attractive men who want me to stick their needle in my arm?
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Blacks, however, were expected to stick needles in their arms.
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Out on the street the fog sears the back of your nostrils and the cold sticks a needle up every pore.
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Indinavir, a protease inhibitor, is added for workers accidentally stuck with HIVexposed needles .
thread
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It reminded me of Mrs Patrick Campbell, who, according to Shaw, could thread a needle with her toes.
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He sat with Lula while she quilted, threading needles for her and telling her about his day.
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Even many conservatives agree that Clinton has threaded that needle more effectively than they expected.
use
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Practitioners use fine needles - normally stainless steel - to stimulate specific anatomical points of the body.
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Ordinary chlorine bleach kills the virus on contact and can be used to sterilize needles between uses.
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Seven guys all used the same needle .
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Officers found used hypodermic needles in a trailer in the backyard next to an infant car seat.
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Some yarns will give a neat sideways band using full needle rib but others look very floppy so beware.
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You can also use a twin needle on most domestic machines.
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It is sometimes accomplished by using a needle to draw out the contents of the fetal skull.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on pins and needles
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I was on pins and needles until I found out I'd won.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The needles have dropped off the Christmas tree.
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The AIDS virus can be transmitted by the use of dirty needles.
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There must be some dust on the needle .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Billy used his penknife to fashion a needle sharp point on each of the sticks.
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How many tucks can any one needle accept without the whole thing piling up on the needles and jamming the carriages?
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It will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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Pick up a handful of pine needles from the forest floor.
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The needles splinter the wind into dirges and laments that tell of the long and tragic history of the trees.
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Then firmly tack the seam, leaving the needles in place, to hold the layers together.
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Then I tried the new needle supplied with the machine when I bought it many years ago.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Paula kept needling him about getting a job, and so finally he hit her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Band members sing spontaneous and insulting ditties, needling the girls as they run up the court or in-bound the ball.
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Beak's been filed to needle sharpness.
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She needled him too much and punctured his control.
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She prodded, quizzed, needled, and unsettled me for about an hour until finally she stopped, satisfied.
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Something about him was beginning to needle her, challenging her to meet him on his own terms.