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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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The state attorney general added that Brown used a rifle in the shooting, which investigators believe was his personal weapon.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
4 Aug. 2025
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Michael Paul Brown, 45, fled from The Owl Bar in Anaconda, Montana, after allegedly committing the shooting using a rifle believed to be his personal weapon, according to authorities.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Aug. 2025
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Earlier this month, while testing shotguns for our annual shotgun test, the crew and I got the chance to experiment with Caldwell’s new Claycopter Launcher.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
30 July 2025
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Democracy and human rights have served as the moral lubricant for riding shotgun on costly U.S.-led geopolitical adventures.—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
27 July 2025
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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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On April 19, 1775, the crack of a musket marked the first official command for colonists to fire upon the red-coated army of Britain’s King George III.—
Lisa Meyers McClintick,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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Depictions of Warren tend to show him in military uniform, with a sword or a musket.—
Eliza McGraw,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2025
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Prosecutors allege that these individuals committed acts of violence using weapons including AK-47s, grenades, and machine guns.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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One of the men shot an AK-47 through the officer’s window, wounding him.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
8 July 2025
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They’re treated like a hostile force—no crowd-control measures, no tear gas—just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. . . .—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Getting residents’ input When the officers strapped with machine guns left their guardposts along the highway between Bat Cave and Chimney Rock — a stretch still closed to everyone but locals — April Bolet didn’t expect much to change.—
Lila Hempel-Edgers
July 22,
Charlotte Observer,
22 July 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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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 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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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
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“Carbine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbine. Accessed 14 Aug. 2025.
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