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Recent Examples of carbine
So, please, don't shoot my eye out with an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot range model air rifle!
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Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
This futuristic-looking, semiautomatic pistol calibre carbine required no regulated components and was fully DIY.
—Rajan Basra, WIRED, 5 July 2024
Winchester chambering was added in 1966 and the carbine model in ’67.
—Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024
As such, one of the silent auction items up for grabs that night was something that to a beer drinker is what an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle was to Ralphie.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 4 Apr. 2024
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Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
This futuristic-looking, semiautomatic pistol calibre carbine required no regulated components and was fully DIY.
—Rajan Basra, WIRED, 5 July 2024
Winchester chambering was added in 1966 and the carbine model in ’67.
—Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024
As such, one of the silent auction items up for grabs that night was something that to a beer drinker is what an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle was to Ralphie.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 4 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carbine
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During the brutal winter that followed, Allied casualties mounted at such an unsustainable clip that European Theater headquarters put out a call for Black volunteers to serve in white rifle companies at the front.—
Time,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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Mahmoud also allegedly purchased a rifle and two boxes of ammunition with more than 800 rounds in each box.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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The next eight plays were runs as well, a mixture of shotgun and under-center snaps with Charbonnet and Ken Walker III, along with an AJ Barner tush push on third-and-1.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Instead, the shotgun approach keeps SNL plugged into the political conversation in a way that suits a politician with zero chill or focus.—
Erik Adams,
The Atlantic,
9 Nov. 2025
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There is also pretty but not always energetic imagery filmed in different referenced parts of the current American wilderness — snow gathering in fields, mist rising above mountaintops — and never-energetic shots of re-enactors loading muskets or preparing for battle.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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Archaeologists in Scotland have excavated over 100 weapon projectiles, including cannon shot and lead musket balls from one of the country’s most famous battlefields.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
30 Oct. 2025
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Driver compartment at the front, engine at the rear, and a fully-rotating turret carrying either a 37 mm gun or a machine gun.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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Another video proliferated across social media showed an RSF gunman shooting an unarmed man in civilian clothing with a machine gun dozens of times point-blank, causing his body to partially disintegrate.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Oct. 2025
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This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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The flintlock coughed a lot of smoke, but Zutterman heard the 270-grain roundball smack the buck.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
2 Oct. 2025
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The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
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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
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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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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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“Carbine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbine. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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