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Recent Examples of AK-47
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.
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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
Prosecutors allege that these individuals committed acts of violence using weapons including AK-47s, grenades, and machine guns.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
The day before the murders, Bell accompanied Williams to buy an AK-47, magazine devices and bullets.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
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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
Prosecutors allege that these individuals committed acts of violence using weapons including AK-47s, grenades, and machine guns.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
The day before the murders, Bell accompanied Williams to buy an AK-47, magazine devices and bullets.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for AK-47
Noun
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The case stems from the shooting at Apalachee High School in September 2024, when then-14-year-old Colt Gray allegedly used an AR15-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers and injure nine others.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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Expedition leader Jason Edmunds was at the front of the group, rifle slung around his shoulder, scanning the landscape for polar and black bears that live in these gorgeous, but harsh, environs.—
Robert Annis,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Feb. 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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Two were killed with a shotgun.—
CBS Miami Team,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Four-receiver sets, a shotgun formation and breakneck tempo were foreign to Faulkner.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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One veteran described losing his leg in a drone strike and using a machine gun as a crutch to reach cover.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Newspapers kept running a photograph of an internationally famous heiress toting a machine gun while wearing a saucy beret.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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It was buried inside a shipping container alongside a silencer, an Uzi submachine gun and tens of thousands of bullets of different calibers.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 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 22 Feb. 2026.
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