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Sable

Sable (Martes zibellina), a mustelid marten of Siberian taiga famed for luxurious fur; ranges Russia to Hokkaido, harvested for 300,000-400,000 wild pelts yearly, IUCN Least Concern, forms fertile kidas hybrids with pine marten.

Sable (wrestler)

Sable (Rena Marlette Lesnar, née Greek, born 1967) is an American retired WWE wrestler and model, WWF valet from 1996, Women's Champion 1998-99, Playboy cover star, $110M lawsuit plaintiff, and Brock Lesnar's wife.

Sable antelope

Sable antelope (Hippotragus niger), a large horned antelope of African savanna woodlands; IUCN Least Concern globally but giant sable subspecies Critically Endangered; Kruger population fell from 2,240 to ~300, while Marromeu grew to ~4,800.

Sable Island

Sable Island (Sable Island National Park Reserve) is a 42-km crescent of shifting sand 290 km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada's 43rd national park since 2013, known for wild horses, grey seals, and over 350 shipwrecks.

Sable Offshore

Sable Offshore is a Houston-based independent oil and gas company that bought ExxonMobil's Santa Ynez Unit off Santa Barbara County, California, in 2024 and restarted production shut since a 2015 pipeline spill.

Sable Starr

Sable Starr (Sabel Shields, 1957 or 1958-2009) was a Sunset Strip groupie of the 1970s glam rock scene, called Queen of the Groupies, featured in Star magazine, later living in Gardnerville, Nevada.

Sable, Fable

SABLE, fABLE (also styled Sable, Fable) is Bon Iver's fifth studio album, released April 11, 2025 on Jagjaguwar, combining the 2024 SABLE EP with nine new fABLE tracks about love and renewal.

Sablefish

Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), or black cod, is a long-lived deepwater fish of the North Pacific Ocean. It is highly valued in commercial fisheries for its oily flesh.

Sablonetum

Sablonetum, a small Roman auxiliary fort (Kastell Ellingen) on the Raetian limes in Bavaria; 0.7 ha, timber fort c. 115–125 AD, stone rebuilt 182 AD under Commodus, abandoned c. 233; garrison 200–250 men.

SABMiller

SABMiller plc was a London-listed multinational brewer formed from South African Breweries and the 2002 purchase of Miller Brewing, becoming the world's second-largest brewer before Anheuser-Busch InBev acquired it in 2016.

Sabni

Sabni, son of Mekhu, was a Sixth Dynasty provincial governor and expedition leader of the 1st Upper Egyptian nome at Elephantine under Pepi II, buried at Qubbet el-Hawa.

Sabo

Sabo, real name William Sabatini, is an American DJ and producer in Los Angeles known for organic deep tribal house and founding the Sol Selectas label.

Saboor Aly

Saboor Aly, also known as Saboor Ali, is a Pakistani television actress born in 1995, known for Fitrat, Parizaad, and her 2016 film debut Actor in Law.

Sabor a ti (Mexican TV series)

Sabor a ti, entre historias y secretos: 2026 Mexican telenovela by Lucero Suárez for TelevisaUnivision, adapted from the 2000 Chilean original by José Ignacio Valenzuela; stars Eva Cedeño and Mario Morán in a vineyard mystery in Montealegre, airing at 8:30 p.m. on Las Estrellas.

Sabot (firearms)

A sabot, from the French wooden shoe, is a carrier that fires a sub-caliber projectile from a larger firearm; it seals the bore and discards after leaving the muzzle.

Sabotage

Sabotage is the covert, deliberate destruction or disruption of equipment, infrastructure, or data, by physical or cyber means. Covers its wartime law status under IHL, the 1916 Black Tom bombing, SOE and OSS practice, and modern state-linked attacks on critical infrastructure.

Sabotage (1936 film)

Sabotage is Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 British thriller, loosely adapted from Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, in which cinema owner Karl Verloc's time bomb kills his wife's young brother on a London bus.

Sabotage (2014 film)

Sabotage is a 2014 American action crime thriller directed by David Ayer, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of a DEA task force whose members are murdered one by one.

Sabotage (Black Sabbath album)

Sabotage is Black Sabbath's sixth studio album, released July 28, 1975, the last of the original lineup's classic run, recorded at Morgan Studios amid litigation with manager Patrick Meehan, featuring Hole in the Sky, Symptom of the Universe, and The Writ.

Sabotage and sandbagging evaluations

Safety evaluations testing whether frontier AI models deliberately underperform on capability tests (sandbagging) or covertly subvert oversight, code, or other agents, introduced by Anthropic in October 2024.

Saboteur

Saboteur (1942) is Alfred Hitchcock's American espionage thriller for Universal, starring Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, and Norman Lloyd, in which a wrongly accused factory worker chases a Nazi saboteur to a Statue of Liberty finale; distinct from Hitchcock's 1936 Sabotage.

Sabr (صبر)

Sabr (صبر) is an Arabic virtue central to Islamic ethics, usually translated "patience", denoting steadfast restraint from despair, complaint, and sin, and perseverance in obedience to God through hardship.

Sabra (character)

Sabra (Ruth Bat-Seraph) is an Israeli Marvel Comics superheroine created in 1980 by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema: a mutant Mossad agent, distinct from the 2022 Sabra-Shatila massacre name controversy and the reworked Black Widow version in Captain America: Brave New World played by Shira Haas.

Sabra (צבר) (person)

Sabra (צבר, tzabar) denotes a Jewish person born in Israel, named after the prickly pear cactus. Once a pejorative from immigrants, it was reclaimed in 1931 and became the Zionist "New Jew" archetype.

Sabra and Shatila massacre

Sabra and Shatila massacre (صبرا وشاتيلا): killing of 800 to over 3,000 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians in Beirut refugee camps, 16–18 September 1982, by the Phalange-linked Lebanese Forces militia under Israeli army control.

Sabrakamani

Sabrakamani was a king of Kush, the Nubian kingdom centered on Napata, attested only by one fragmentary stela and dated uncertainly to the late 5th or 4th century BC.

Sabratha amphitheater

Sabratha amphitheater: Roman amphitheater at Sabratha, Libya, built mid-2nd century AD of calcarenite, seating up to 20,000; distinct from the city's famous Roman theatre; abandoned after a 4th-century earthquake and spoiled in the 6th century.

Sabratha Roman Theater

The Sabratha Roman Theater is a Roman theater in the ancient city of Sabratha, on the coast of Libya, built in the late second century CE and among the best-preserved Roman theaters in the world.

Sabre

A sabre is a single-edged sword with a curved blade, historically used by cavalry for cutting and slashing from horseback and now one of three fencing weapons.

Sabre (fencing)

Sabre (fencing): one of the three Olympic fencing weapons, descended from the cavalry sabre; cutting-edge hits, target above the waist, right-of-way rules, electric scoring since 1988, Hungarian dominance 1908-1964.