Synonyms for needle
ˈnid lnee·dle

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1. needleverb

   To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.

   Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.

   Synonyms:
   goad, tease

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1. acerate leaf, needlenoun

   the leaf of a conifer

   Synonyms:
   acerate leaf, phonograph needle

2. needlenoun

   a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

   Synonyms:
   phonograph needle, acerate leaf

3. needlenoun

   a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

   Synonyms:
   phonograph needle, acerate leaf

4. phonograph needle, needleverb

   a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

   Synonyms:
   phonograph needle, acerate leaf

5. needle, goadverb

   goad or provoke,as by constant criticism

   "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks"

   Synonyms:
   spur, goad, prick

6. needleverb

   prick with a needle

   Synonyms:
   goad

Matched Categories

1. • Implement
   • Pointer
   • Prick
   • Sewing
   • Simple Leaf

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1. List of paraphrases for "needle":

   syringe, semi-sparkling, needles, pointer, filament, leaf, foliar, pin

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1. Xiangmin Liu:

   We have talked about finding suspicious activity as being like finding a needle in a haystack, well, that haystack is getting bigger and bigger, and is moving all the time.

2. Ramakrishna Maruvada:

   This doesn't move the needle.

3. Bill Costello:

   I could see( bankruptcies) as a marginal contributor to lower supply, but if you ask me could it ever move the needle, the answer is no.

4. Jeff Bezos:

   It's also very good business for Amazon because it's (a) very high capex undertaking; it's multiple billions of dollars of capex, amazon is a large enough company now that we need to do things that if they work can actually move the needle.

5. Venus Herrick:

   This was a needle-in-a-haystack search with no guarantee that the needle exists, finding a change that could be clearly confirmed as real was absolutely a surprise. We were pretty certain that Venus is volcanically active, but we didn’t know if eruptions occur every few months, years, once every 10,000 years, or longer. All options could have fit with existing data. Unless we got incredibly lucky, we now know the frequency is every few months or so, similar to the family of Earth’s big basaltic intraplate volcanoes like Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Canary Islands, etc.