as in balls
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 bullets
According to Navarro, the boy’s father believed the rifle was empty of bullets.
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Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
The attack was traumatizing, and the windows cracked by the barrage of bullets the gunman leveled at the agency have still not been replaced, nearly eight months later.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 Mar. 2026
During the shootout, the 71-year-old sleeping man who was sleeping nearby in his home was grazed in the arm by one of the bullets.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
Needless to say, this isn't a problem a few bullets can solve.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026
Three other officers returned fire, shooting 32 bullets into the apartment.
—ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
Two others in the crowd who took bullets were Margaret Kruis, 21, a dancer from Newark, and Caldwell.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
Their supposedly clever leaders have fallen, one after another, to American and Israeli bullets and bombs.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
One of the bullets ended up in the mailbox.
—Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
The attack was traumatizing, and the windows cracked by the barrage of bullets the gunman leveled at the agency have still not been replaced, nearly eight months later.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 Mar. 2026
During the shootout, the 71-year-old sleeping man who was sleeping nearby in his home was grazed in the arm by one of the bullets.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
Needless to say, this isn't a problem a few bullets can solve.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026
Three other officers returned fire, shooting 32 bullets into the apartment.
—ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
Two others in the crowd who took bullets were Margaret Kruis, 21, a dancer from Newark, and Caldwell.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
Their supposedly clever leaders have fallen, one after another, to American and Israeli bullets and bombs.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
One of the bullets ended up in the mailbox.
—Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bullets
Noun
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Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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The cannonball joins over 250,000 artifacts found at the site, the expert added, which mostly include ceramic pieces, musket balls, adobe floor fragments and glass bottles.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Precision missiles, artillery shells, drones, and air defense missiles are usually expended much faster than initially anticipated.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Mar. 2026
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Although artillery shells cannot be described as weapons of the future, the war in Ukraine has shown the value of keeping them around.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
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Projections of new optical storage archiving systems promise 1PB raw capacity optical cartridges by the 2030’s, compared to the possible 365TB raw capacity cartridge projections for LTO Gen 14.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The safest fertilizers to apply are organic, low analysis (the three numbers representing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are all single digits), or slow-release pellets.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
26 Mar. 2026
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His dad needed to pop in to check something, and what caught Will’s eye was a large drum of polyethylene pellets, the raw bits that get melted down and stretched into plastic wrap and plastic bags.—
Eric Boodman,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Bullets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bullets. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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