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Recent Examples of AK-47
Northeastern Iraq — Piece by piece, the young man in a black and white scarf – a keffiyeh – takes apart his AK-47 assault rifle, placing them side-by-side on the rocky ground.
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Ben Wedeman, CNN Money, 19 Jan. 2026
The rapper recalled some of his most unforgettable viral stunts during his rise, including running up a hill with an AK-47.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
The film tells a conspiracist version of the AK-47 attack on the Regency Hotel, claiming, without evidence, that the police and various politicians were complicit.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
School shootings are an obvious one, made explicitly so by Archer seeing a giant AK-47 with the number 217 in red floating above a house.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Ben Wedeman, CNN Money, 19 Jan. 2026
The rapper recalled some of his most unforgettable viral stunts during his rise, including running up a hill with an AK-47.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
The film tells a conspiracist version of the AK-47 attack on the Regency Hotel, claiming, without evidence, that the police and various politicians were complicit.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
School shootings are an obvious one, made explicitly so by Archer seeing a giant AK-47 with the number 217 in red floating above a house.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for AK-47
Noun
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Mike Bland told reporters at the scene of Sunday’s shooting the weapon was an AR-15 style rifle.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
9 Mar. 2026
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Boese said Casap developed a plan in late 2024 to target Trump with an AK-47 rifle attached to a drone.—
Todd Richmond,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The Rip, from the director Joe Carnahan, is a cop drama where macho guys (and gals) tote carbine rifles and grunt law-enforcement lingo—the kind of crime-genre pablum that commonly gets thrown onto Netflix in mid-January.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
21 Jan. 2026
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Set in the 1940s in fictional Hohman, Indiana, young Ralphie Parker dreams of nothing more than an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot Range Model air rifle for Christmas.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
25 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Strewn near the bodies were spent shell casings and a shotgun shell.—
Daniel Wu,
Washington Post,
6 Mar. 2026
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Among them were the one believed used in the road rage incident as well as a pistol reported stolen out of Santa Rosa, an assault rife, a sawed off shotgun and other firearms, authorities said.—
Harry Harris,
Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Sandgaard hung a large banner on the fourth floor, a spoof of a popular George Washington meme in which the Zynex founder is holding a machine gun in one hand, a bald eagle perched on his other arm.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
5 Mar. 2026
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So this scatter gun, almost machine gun, offensive by the Iranians seems to be backfiring.—
Yarden Segev,
NBC news,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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On the roof, a three-year-old boy from Chile plays with a toy submachine gun, pointing it at anyone who comes within range.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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Police learned Pyles owns a handgun and a submachine gun, according to charging documents.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Then the French started to standardize their muskets.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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His 134 men were armed with musket, cartridge pouch, and sword in case of a hostile encounter, and the Africaansche Galey lay close by with a couple of small cannon brought forward on the bow.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.—
Mohammad Al Sawalhi,
CNN,
26 June 2024
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Prosecutors said police found two weapons in the getaway car when the men were detained on a highway about 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside Amsterdam, a Heckler and Koch machine pistol and, in a Louis Vuitton bag, a blank-firing pistol that had been modified to take 9-millimeter rounds.—
MIKE CORDER,
ajc,
18 Oct. 2021
Noun
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Gunfire disrupts the silence as Raya emerges through smoke, armed with a tommy gun.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 Jan. 2026
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After speeches by longtime colleagues (the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, presented him with a replica tommy gun), Garland spoke.—
Fabio Bertoni,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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“AK-47.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/AK-47. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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