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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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Equipped with a full-length Picatinny-style rail, the rifle can mount telescopic, infrared, or night-vision optics, significantly improving accuracy in low-light or complex environments.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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The man hit by the rifle was taken to a local hospital via ambulance for treatment.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Sep. 2025
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This is because common techniques rely on a decades-old sequencing technology called shotgun metagenomics, that frequently misses bacterial populations from complex samples.—
Steven Savage,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Anyone riding shotgun will ask for seconds, and by day’s end, the 765’s Pirelli P-Zeros have left a solid strip of 11s.—
Sean Evans,
Robb Report,
9 Sep. 2025
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The framers of the U.S. Constitution lived in an age of muskets and messengers, when war moved slowly and left time for Congress and the president to confer.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
23 June 2025
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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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School shootings are an obvious one, made explicitly so by Archer seeing a giant AK-47 with the number 217 in red floating above a house.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 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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Many Allied soldiers drowned, hit mines or were cut down by Nazi machine gun crossfire.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Large groups were indiscriminately huddled together and riddled with machine gun fire.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Aug. 2025
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This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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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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“Carbine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbine. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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