as in ball
a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm
it is possible to make your own bullets, but it takes a lot of patience and some extra money
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Recent Examples of bullet
The district and the sheriff’s office did not respond to questions about the bullet incident, which both Mazieka and Aller also recalled.
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Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2025
The married father of two was struck by a single bullet and later pronounced dead.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Cox confirmed that inscriptions were found on the bullet casings belonging to Robinson.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Amid screams and the sound of bullets, she is killed.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
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Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2025
The married father of two was struck by a single bullet and later pronounced dead.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Cox confirmed that inscriptions were found on the bullet casings belonging to Robinson.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Amid screams and the sound of bullets, she is killed.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bullet
Noun
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Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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And when the second half started, Gay couldn’t turn a solid Commanders drive into three more points, banging the ball off the right goal post.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The country is splintered, and language gets used as ammunition.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The rifle that authorities believe was used in the assassination contained ammunition inscribed with antifascist messaging, sources confirmed to Fox News Digital.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The results cast doubt on whether the plumes truly carry whispers of alien life, or merely echoes of lifeless chemistry on the frozen shell.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Authorities also revealed bizarre engravings on unfired shell casings recovered at the scene.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If operation of the nuclear system is desired beyond 20 years, a cartridge replacement can be performed.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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There’s also an odor neutralizer cartridge that can be placed into the vacuum’s brush roll and is designed to keep foul odors out of the air while cleaning.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These frozen pellets are accelerated using a high-pressure pulse of helium gas, injecting them deep into the stellarator’s 30-million-degree plasma core.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Aug. 2025
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But then came the pellet smoker, popularized by Traeger, and as with gas, everything changed.—
Larry Olmsted,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Bullet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bullet. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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