Needles and Slivers

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Slivers and needles are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Slivers" instead a noun "Needles".

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Needles and slivers are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Needles" instead a noun "Slivers".

Larry Niven's Known Space has mercy needles, slivers of anesthetic that dissolve in the bloodstream of whoever is shot with them.

Source: Stun Guns
Instant Sedation: Slivers of crystalline anesthetic (AKA "mercy needles") used in hypo guns.

Source: Literature / Known Space
Jack Vance's The Demon Princes series puts in the hands of its protagonist a device that fires "slivers of explosive glass" and either another device or the same device with different loadings/settings, which discharges very fine needles that cause intense and prolonged itching.

Source: Abnormal Ammo

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