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Recent Examples of AK-47
He was arrested after a loaded AK-47 assault rifle was found in his backseat.
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Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2025
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is offering $5,000 for the recovery of the Draco gun, which looks like an AK-47, that deputies believe was used to kill German-Garo.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Deputies searched Kennedy’s car and found a mini AK-47 loaded with a 60-round magazine and a loaded Glock pistol with an extended magazine, Linhardt added.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
With their AK-47s strapped to their vests and their faces covered, the fighters took selfies, shook hands and handed water to passers-by.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2025
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is offering $5,000 for the recovery of the Draco gun, which looks like an AK-47, that deputies believe was used to kill German-Garo.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Deputies searched Kennedy’s car and found a mini AK-47 loaded with a 60-round magazine and a loaded Glock pistol with an extended magazine, Linhardt added.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
With their AK-47s strapped to their vests and their faces covered, the fighters took selfies, shook hands and handed water to passers-by.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for AK-47
Noun
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More than 20 rifle casings were recovered at the scene, authorities said.—
Harry Harris,
Mercury News,
29 Apr. 2025
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The doors managed to effectively absorb Glock 9mm, 12-guage shotgun and 45-caliber Tommy Gun bullets but were useless against a 17 mm round, an AR-15 or a 50 Cal sniper rifle.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 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
Noun
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Ferguson was arrested that same night, and police later recovered 48 weapons — including rifles, shotguns, and handguns, and over 26,000 rounds of ammunition — from his home, according to prosecutors.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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An opening montage of video clips ends with an iconic two-shot from the film of their characters, Pedro (Marin) behind the wheel and Man (Chong) riding shotgun, disappearing into a screen full of smoke.—
Adam Tschorn,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The simplest of them, are little more than a machine gun on a tripod with a video camera and a servo motor.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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In a famous scene, Macaulay Culkin’s character scares away a delivery driver by playing pre-recorded machine gun noises from a gangster movie.—
Mark Dent,
thehustle.co,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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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The gear is museum-worthy – muskets longer than men are tall, coats ranging from rich brocade to dun homespun.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 Apr. 2025
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The men, who’d assembled on the moors hours earlier, were armed with muskets, sticks, hatchets, and heavy blacksmith’s hammers.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 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 6 May. 2025.
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