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
Each rifle carries four magazines that hold five bullets each.
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ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
Another showed Levi firing two shots without showing where the bullets struck.
—Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
And there are systems that use bullets to shoot down drones.
—Josh Funk, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2026
He's lost all hearing in his right ear, where one of the bullets exited.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 10 Feb. 2026
Officers fired beanbag rounds, a nonlethal alternative to bullets, to subdue Carter and take him into custody.
—Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
One of the bullets severed his spine, leaving him paralyzed on a respirator.
—Alice Gainer, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Bell-Johnson and a second shooter, Jay Nixon-Clark, believed that associates of Monroe had fired bullets at a house in which Bell-Johnson’s relatives lived, Fort Worth Police Department homicide detectives concluded.
—Emerson Clarridge
updated February 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Feb. 2026
Amadou Diallo, 27, who police believe was a bystander, was also fatally struck as the bullets flew.
—Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
Another showed Levi firing two shots without showing where the bullets struck.
—Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
And there are systems that use bullets to shoot down drones.
—Josh Funk, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2026
He's lost all hearing in his right ear, where one of the bullets exited.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 10 Feb. 2026
Officers fired beanbag rounds, a nonlethal alternative to bullets, to subdue Carter and take him into custody.
—Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
One of the bullets severed his spine, leaving him paralyzed on a respirator.
—Alice Gainer, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Bell-Johnson and a second shooter, Jay Nixon-Clark, believed that associates of Monroe had fired bullets at a house in which Bell-Johnson’s relatives lived, Fort Worth Police Department homicide detectives concluded.
—Emerson Clarridge
updated February 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Feb. 2026
Amadou Diallo, 27, who police believe was a bystander, was also fatally struck as the bullets flew.
—Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bullets
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Each ticket costs $5, and players may pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers — five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 24 (the gold Mega Ball) — or select Easy Pick/Quick Pick.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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Catcher Carson Kelly said the Cubs have talked about ways to train by receiving pitches off of a machine to test catching balls on the edge and making pseudo challenges in the practice setting to see if their eyes are reading the zone correctly.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Sandwiches Don’t be tempted by the deli sandwiches sold in plastic clam shells, the cold bread and sad cold cuts are not worth it.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2026
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First, there are the concentric circle features, which look like wispy shells of ejecta blown off of the star.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 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
Noun
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Rat birth control are light brown pellets that officials say are safe for any animal to eat, and are only effective in rats.—
Tara Molina,
CBS News,
13 Feb. 2026
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Fear of imprisonment had not deterred him from reactivating his network in January, shortly after a gunman sprayed him with plastic pellets in Tehran.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Bullets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bullets. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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