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Recent Examples of AK-47
When he was arrested in Miami-Dade in December 2022, he was also found with an AK-47, according to court records.
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David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
The North Korean soldier was carrying an AK-12 assault rifle – the newer model of the standard issue AK-47, Amur said.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff Bishop Curry wears a cross made from an AK-47.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Jan. 2025
He was arrested after a loaded AK-47 assault rifle was found in his backseat.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2025
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David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
The North Korean soldier was carrying an AK-12 assault rifle – the newer model of the standard issue AK-47, Amur said.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff Bishop Curry wears a cross made from an AK-47.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Jan. 2025
He was arrested after a loaded AK-47 assault rifle was found in his backseat.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for AK-47
Noun
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Plus, the robots in question here aren't miniature terminators that crawl about blasting mucus from the walls of your sinuses with laser rifles.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 June 2025
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Gertrude Harten, a German internee from Ecuador, wrote in her diary that two U.S. soldiers with rifles knocked on her door in Cuenca, Ecuador, and apprehended her husband, Wolfgang Harten, in December 1943.—
JoAnn DeLuna,
NPR,
30 June 2025
Noun
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Hale’s firearms included an AR-15 pistol, a semi-automatic AR pistol, a semi-automatic carbine rifle and a semi-automatic pistol.—
John Miller,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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In an interview with police, a family member said that Luke Howard had a 10mm Hi-Point carbine rifle and a 10mm glock handgun, court records said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2025
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On Monday, Norris said that a shotgun was found at the scene, but did not describe a second weapon.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
30 June 2025
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Wess Roley owned a shotgun and a long rifle, his grandfather said.—
Yahya Abou-Ghazala,
CNN Money,
30 June 2025
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Weapons experts said the rate of gunfire heard in the footage, as well as images of bullets retrieved from victims, were consistent with machine guns used by the Israeli military.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
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Seven decades before Limonov fired his machine gun into Sarajevo, another poet went on a Croatian misadventure some five-hundred miles north in Rjeka, then known as Fiume.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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On April 19, 1775, the crack of a musket marked the first official command for colonists to fire upon the red-coated army of Britain’s King George III.—
Lisa Meyers McClintick,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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Depictions of Warren tend to show him in military uniform, with a sword or a musket.—
Eliza McGraw,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
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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
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“AK-47.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/AK-47. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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